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pinto

(106,886 posts) Sat Dec 1, 2012, 06:30 PM Dec 2012

End Capital Punishment (Amnesty International)

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 cycle of violence created by a system riddled with economic and racial bias and tainted by human error.

Amnesty International campaigns to abolish the death penalty in the USA by focusing on individual cases of injustice, supporting work for death penalty repeal efforts in the states, and educating campuses and communities about the fatally flawed nature of our capital punishment system

http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/campaigns/abolish-the-death-penalty?id=1104336&n1=3&n2=28&n3=81

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End Capital Punishment (Amnesty International) (Original Post) pinto Dec 2012 OP

Time to move towards life, and stop this abuse.. midnight Dec 2012 #1

A society does not become better by doing the very thing it purports to hold in contempt. marmar Dec 2012 #2

midnight

(26,624 posts)

1. Time to move towards life, and stop this abuse..

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Sat Dec 1, 2012, 10:03 PM

Dec 2012

marmar

(77,073 posts)

2. A society does not become better by doing the very thing it purports to hold in contempt.

Reply to pinto (Original post)

Sat Dec 1, 2012, 10:07 PM

Dec 2012

Capital punishment is state-sanctioned murder, no matter how much lipstick they try to put on it.

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