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The Death Penalty: A Failure of JusticeThe death penalty is never acceptable, and every execution constitutes an extreme violation of the right to life. The violation is exacerbated when judgements are passed after an unfair judicial process. |
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The Death Penalty Disregards 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.
U.S. Constitutional law is in line with some of these international safeguards, but does not go far enough. The execution of the insane – someone who does not understand the reason for, or the reality of, his or her punishment - violates the U.S. Constitution (Ford v. Wainwright, 1986). The Ford decision left the determination of sanity up to each state. Constitutional protections for those with other forms of mental illness are minimal, however, and numerous prisoners have been executed despite suffering from serious mental illness.
- The Death Penalty Defies International Standards
- The Death Penalty Disregards Mental Illness
- The Death Penalty Claims Innocent Lives
- The Death Penalty is Racially Biased
- The Death Penalty is Arbitrary and Unfair
- The Death Penalty Costs More
- The Death Penalty Violates the Rights of Foreign Nationals
- The Death Penalty Can Never be Voluntary
- The Death Penalty is not a Deterrent
- The Federal Death Penalty is Overreaching