Amnesty International and the Death Penalty (1997)
Title: Amnesty International and the Death Penalty (1997)
Category: /Law & Government
Details: Words: 916 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Amnesty International and the Death Penalty (1997)
Category: /Law & Government
Details: Words: 916 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Amnesty International and the Death Penalty (1997)
Amnesty International - Against the Death Penalty
The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment and violates the right to life.
Execution is irrevocable and can be inflicted on the innocent.
The death penalty has never been shown to deter crime more effectively than other punishments.
Execution is an act of violence and violence tends to provoke violence. The imposition and infliction of the death penalty
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death penalty continues to grow. But five countries since 1990 are known to have executed prisoners who were under 18 years old (which is prohibited). To sum up, I think there are more points against the death penalty than in favour of it (although I didn't mention all of them). I don't like the idea of people deciding what to do with other people's lives and that if they are mistaken they can't do anything about it.