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20 Μαΐ 2023 · The death penalty is inhumane and violates the fundamental right to life. Physician involvement enables this continuing abuse of human rights and undermines the four pillars of medical ethics—beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, and justice.
18 Φεβ 2021 · Since 1973, more than 8,700 people in the U.S. have been sent to death row. At least 182 weren’t guilty—their lives upended by a system that nearly killed them.
13 Ιαν 2021 · Pro-death penalty lawmakers and advocates in the country have long argued that the death penalty will deter criminality. However, the literature suggests that there is still no clear and credible empirical evidence to back the argument that the death penalty is a crime deterrent.
The death penalty debate in the United States has recently undergone a fundamental shift. The possibility of executing the innocent has emerged as some abolitionists' most salient argument, displacing debates over such issues as fairness, deterrence, and cost.
A study by the United Nations Ofice on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) found that following the abolition of the death penalty in Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Romania and Poland during the 1990s, homicide rates across the five countries declined by 61% between 2000 and 2008.
21 Ιουν 2023 · Chelsea Henning. Abstract. The general trend in the use and application of the death penalty is an increasing movement toward abolition. This is reflected in the repeal of state death penalty laws, state moratoriums, and the reduction in executions and death sentences.
18 Ιουλ 2023 · There is a growing position among human rights advocates, academics and UN officials, predicting “the death of the death penalty”, and forecasting that it will completely disappear soon. This artic...
