Two Completely Different Views on the Death Penalty
These are the feelings that Amnesty International USA has toward the death penalty:
They believe that the death penalty is the ultimate and irreversible denial of human rights. By working toward the abolition of the death penalty worldwide, Amnesty International USA's Program to Abolish the Death Penalty looked to discontinue the cycle of violence created by a system consumed with economic and racial bias and corrupted by human error. The death penalty is a violation of human rights. More than half the countries in the world have now abolished the death penalty in law or practice.
The USA is executing criminals who have been diagnosed with mental illness. In 1986, in Ford v Wainwright, the Supreme Court ruled that the execution of the insane violates the Constitution's ban on "cruel and unusual punishments." It is impossible to know how many of those executed suffered from mental problems, but estimates go as far as......
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