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International Death Penalty

International death penalty trends are unmistakably towards abolition. Use of the death penalty worldwide has continued to shrink, and use of the death penalty has also been increasingly curtailed in…

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Lethal Injection

The search for a “humane” way of killing people should be seen for what it is — a search to make executions more palatable to those carrying out and witnessing…

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The Death Penalty and Deterrence

In April 2012, The National Research Council concluded that studies claiming that the death penalty affects murder rates were “fundamentally flawed” because they did not consider the effects of noncapital…

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Death Penalty and Arbitrariness

Factors contributing to the arbitrariness of the death penalty: Almost all death row inmates could not afford their own attorney at trial. Court-appointed attorneys often lack the experience necessary for…

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Death Penalty and Race

In a 1990 report, the non-partisan U.S. General Accounting Office found “a pattern of evidence indicating racial disparities in the charging, sentencing, and imposition of the death penalty.” The study…

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Death Penalty Cost

Recent Cost Studies A 2003 legislative audit in Kansas found that the estimated cost of a death penalty case was 70% more than the cost of a comparable non-death penalty…

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Death Penalty and Innocence

Examples of wrongful convictions North Carolina: Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, charges dismissed in 2014 The two brothers were 19 and 15 and both men were intellectually disabled when they…

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Death Penalty and Mental Illness

The execution of those with mental illness or “the insane” is clearly prohibited by international law. Virtually every country in the world prohibits the execution of people with mental illness.…

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Death Penalty Facts

The death penalty in the U.S. is unjust, costly, discriminatory and used disproportionately against the poor and minorities.

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Abolish The Death Penalty

End Capital Punishment The death penalty is the ultimate, irreversible denial of human rights. By working towards the abolition of the death penalty worldwide, Amnesty International aims to end the…