"By means of the police force, the judiciary was subjected to open pressure, and the execution of court orders was obstructed," Akkas said.
"If they try and aim at Tayyip Erdogan through this, they will [be left empty-handed]." Akkas issued a statement accusing the government of obstructing the execution of court orders, saying police loyal to Erdogan have refused to comply.
"The government is further required to enact the relevant legislation within any time frame decided by the Committee of Ministers, the executive arm of the Council of Europe, which supervises the execution of the Court's judgments".
The proposals also rightly emphasise the importance of improving the national selection process of judicial candidates for the court, and strengthening the role of the committee of ministers in supervising the execution of the court's judgments.
In March, the committee "strongly urged" the authorities to "rapidly adopt measures, of even an interim nature, to ensure the execution of the court's judgment before the forthcoming general election".
"There was also the execution of a court employee in the Dawasa area in central Mosul and the execution of 12 people in Dawasa who were believed to have been serving with the Iraq security services or possibly with members of the police".
However, on 9 January it filed an "action plan" with the body that supervises execution of the court's judgments in which the government said that "no final decisions have yet been taken" on what steps might be necessary as a result of the Vinter judgment.
Because a majority is needed for a stay of execution, the court's 3-to-3 decision was a defeat for the death row inmate, Napoleon Beazley.
In another development today bearing on the death penalty, three justices filed an opinion dissenting from stays of execution the court granted last month to two Texas death row inmates.
Capital defense lawyers say they are often confronted with victims' family members calling outside of court for execution.
Death Penalty Now that 18 of the 38 states with a death penalty have barred the execution of retarded people, the court will decide whether such executions violate "evolving standards of decency," the test for determining whether a punishment is "cruel and unusual" under the Eighth Amendment.
