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Death Penalty



UN Rules on Death Penalty

The death penalty is an eventual, permanent denial of human rights. Death penalty means execution of a person by the judicial process as a punishment for an offense. It is cruel and unusual. Many people have been asserted innocent sufferers of the death penalty. It is intended and merciless killing of a human being by the government.

This inhuman, cold-blooded and undignified punishment is done in the name of justice. It breaks the right to life law as declared in the UDHR (Universal Declaration of Human Rights). Judicial functions of sentencing and trial should be conducted with fundamental of equality, especially where the unalterable sanction of the death penalty is involved. In many murder cases, there has been significant evidence to show that courts have been racially biased, subjective, and unfair in the way in which they have given the death penalty to prisoners.

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Case Studies

United States violation of humanitarian law and its attack on Iraq in the year 2003
Children trafficking.Though slavery is unlawful