This document contains the texts of four speeches delivered at Amnesty International’s seminar on the death penalty held on 3 September 1990 during the Eighth UN Crime Congress in Havana, Cuba. The speakers were: Mr Justice P N Bhagwati, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India; Professor Sofia Kelina, Institute of State and Law, Soviet Academy of Sciences; Dr Abdul Carimo Issa, legal adviser to the Minister of Justice of Mozambique; Nigel Rodley, Reader in Law, Human Rights Centre, University of Essex (former head of Amnesty International’s Legal and Intergovernmental Organizations Office).
