Turning to the case of death row inmate Troy Davis, who is the focus of a campaign in the USA against capital punishment, the President said on behalf of the European Parliament "I appeal to the State of Georgia to commute his death sentence to life imprisonment".
Pieminot Troy Davis gadījumu, kurš ASV Džordžijas štatā gaida nāves soda izpildi, EP priekšsēdētājs aicināja nomainīt piespriesto nāvessodu ar mūža ieslodzījumu.