Humanelaw

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.

The death penalty must be given only for dreadful crimes like treason, large-scale drug trafficking, murder while taking hostages and robbing a bank, attempted murder of a criminal case witness, killing a Federal judge or cop, and sex crimes against under age by a repeat offender.All punishments by its nature are retributive, not only the death penalty. Followers believe that the death penalty is necessary for killers by the principle of justice since; the life detention is not an equally useful restriction for them. The death penalty preserves the right to life law by punishing those who violate it.UN has tried to make the use of death punishment as limited as possible.

In 1984, UN introduced rules for giving death penalty :

1. It should be imposed after a fair trial.
2. Death penalty is only sentenced for crimes that prescribe it.
3. Minors, pregnant women and mentally ill people should not be given death penalty.
4. Any prisoner sentenced to death shall have the right to appeal the sentence to a court that is superior to the one in which it was decided.
5. Execution should be done with as little suffering as possible.

Today, 28 European countries have eliminated the death penalty either in practice or in law. In Great Britain, it was eliminated (except for treason) in 1971, France eliminated it in 1981, Canada eradicated it in 1976, Australia banned it in 1973. After Second World War many countries had abolished the death penalty. According to Amnesty International, 95 countries had (has) abolished the death penalty in the year 2010.