MONTREAL, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- French actress Catherine Deneuve and Bianca Jagger, a goodwill ambassador for the Council of Europe, joined a weekend capital punishment protest in Montreal.
"The people who receive the death penalty are not those (who) commit the worst crimes, but those who cannot afford a good lawyer to defend them," Jagger told demonstrators Saturday. "The death penalty is biased."
Capital punishment is still practiced in 66 countries worldwide, including the United States where 3,700 prisoners are currently on death row, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Sunday.
each protester wore a sticker with the name of a U.S. prisoner currently on death row. After the march in a Montreal park, they lay the ground to represent the executed.
Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe told the demonstrators countries such as Canada, which abolished the death penalty in 1976, should do more to convince other countries to do likewise.
