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The death penalty is wrong because it disproportionately affects certain groups, inflicts physical and psychological torment, burdens taxpayers, and doesn’t deter or resolve the root causes of crime.
- Why does Amnesty International oppose the death penalty? The death penalty violates the most fundamental human right – the right to life. It is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.
- Don’t victims of violent crime and their families have a right to justice? They do. Those who have lost loved ones in terrible crimes have a right to see the person responsible held to account in a fair trial without recourse to the death penalty.
- If you kill someone else, don’t you deserve to die, too – “an eye for an eye”? No. Executing someone because they’ve taken someone’s life is revenge, not justice.
- Doesn’t the death penalty prevent crime? Not according to the research. There is no credible evidence that the death penalty deters crime more effectively than a prison term.
- Legality. The United States is one of 55 countries globally with a legal death penalty, according to Amnesty International. As of Mar. 24, 2021, within the US, 27 states had a legal death penalty (though 3 of those states had a moratorium on the punishment’s use).
- Life without Parole. Life without Parole (also called LWOP) is suggested by some as an alternative punishment for the death penalty. PRO. Proponents of replacing the death penalty with life without parole argue that imprisoning someone for the duration of their life is more humane than the death penalty, that LWOP is a more fitting penalty that allows the criminal to think about what they’ve done, and that LWOP reduces the chances of executing an innocent person.
- Deterrence. One of the main justifications for maintaining a death penalty is that the punishment may prevent people from committing crimes so as to not risk being sentenced to death.
- Retribution. Retribution in this debate is the idea that the death penalty is needed to bring about justice for the victims, the victims’ families, and/or society at large.
Apr 3, 2023 · According to Türk, evidence strongly suggests that the death penalty has little or no impact on deterring or reducing crime. A number of studies have demonstrated that countries that have abolished the death penalty have seen their murder rates unchanged or even decline, he added.
Anti-death penalty campaigners can rattle off 25 different reasons why we need to abolish the death penalty: its cruel, degrading, inhumane, what about families, it’s just wrong and world peace.
- Everyone agrees that crime is bad and we need to stop it. This seems sensible and logical in every way, until we ask the question: do we need the d...
- Various iterations of this comment came thick and fast when Amnesty began calling for the clemency of Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran,...
- Australia’s criminal justice system is largely fair, but that certainly can’t be said of many of the countries using the death penalty. We know tha...
- Even I was surprised by the facts on this one. A study done in California discovered that it was actually more expensive to execute a person than t...
- There are a lot of people who have done horrific, unspeakable things, but modern societies should not join their ranks by also carrying out a murde...
Jan 31, 2024 · The infliction of the death penalty is incompatible with the right to life and is difficult to reconcile with the right to live free of torture. The UN has historically opposed it and works towards its worldwide abolition.
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Jan 20, 2021 · Do you think the death penalty serves a necessary purpose, like deterring crime, providing relief for victims’ families or imparting justice? Or is capital punishment “cruel and unusual”...
