Taoiseach Enda Kenny first floated abolition in 2009.
Key was a slaveholder and, as a U.S. Attorney, opposed abolition in print and in court.
Stockbrokers and private investors are hoping for a reduction, or abolition, in duty on share transactions.
The abolition in 1857 of the toll for crossing The Sound marked the beginning of the town's commercial prosperity.
On Jan . 15Gorbachev called for the abolition, in stages, of all nuclear weapons by the year 2000.
His self-righteousness aside, he played an instrumental role in pushing the state toward abolition in 1864.
The Holy Roman Empire, prior to its abolition in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars, included hundreds of German-speaking states.
Its chief executive, Roy Clare, said he learned of its abolition in "a very civilised" phone call on Friday.
Two of the eight committees the rebels formed will study how abolition in those states has worked out.
But Mr Uribe says Colombia cannot afford to pay them; he proposes to include their abolition in a referendum on political reform planned for next year.
At the time of the death penalty's abolition in each developed country, a majority similar to America's, currently about 65%, wanted to keep it, according to opinion polls.
