Friday, October 17, 2008
STOP EXECUTIONS
Amnesty International is running a campaign to end the executions, means they want a complete ban on death penalties, or we can say that they want the life time imprisonment, to be the top punishment in the law. Amnesty international says that the death penalty is the ultimate denial of human rights, this cruel killing of human beings by the state in the name of justice, should be banned completely.
Eighty eight percent of all known executions [2007] took place in five countries: China, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the USA. In 2007 more than 3000 were sentenced to death in 51 countries. Since 1977 more than two third of the countries in the world have abolished the death penalty in law or practice. Total number of countries who have abolished the death penalty is 137 and total number of retentionist countries is 60. Uzbekistan and Argentina are the only two countries who abolished in 2008. Pakistan is among the countries who is still sentencing death penalties, and Pakistan was on the 3rd number in 2007 in Executions.
Being common soft hearted persons, we want all the murderers to be hanged till death, but while thinking with broad mind, a question arises that, whether the person who has got death penalty was really a criminal or was an innocent? We are humans, and making mistake is in our nature, so it is possible that we can surely make mistake in judgment, and that mistake could end a life of an innocent. So to favor human rights we should support this campaign and should force our government to bring Pakistan in the list of those countries that have recently banned executions.
Mubashir Shaikh
mubashirshaikh326@hotmail.com
+923322653055
Eighty eight percent of all known executions [2007] took place in five countries: China, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the USA. In 2007 more than 3000 were sentenced to death in 51 countries. Since 1977 more than two third of the countries in the world have abolished the death penalty in law or practice. Total number of countries who have abolished the death penalty is 137 and total number of retentionist countries is 60. Uzbekistan and Argentina are the only two countries who abolished in 2008. Pakistan is among the countries who is still sentencing death penalties, and Pakistan was on the 3rd number in 2007 in Executions.
Being common soft hearted persons, we want all the murderers to be hanged till death, but while thinking with broad mind, a question arises that, whether the person who has got death penalty was really a criminal or was an innocent? We are humans, and making mistake is in our nature, so it is possible that we can surely make mistake in judgment, and that mistake could end a life of an innocent. So to favor human rights we should support this campaign and should force our government to bring Pakistan in the list of those countries that have recently banned executions.
Mubashir Shaikh
mubashirshaikh326@hotmail.com
+923322653055
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