Introduction
58 of the 195 countries in the world allow and have the death penalty as legal. One of them is the United States, an English-speaking country with 23 executions in 2017. However, 19 states in the US have chosen to abolish it while 31 states still have it as legal. Because of this, it exists organizations that are working to prohibit the death penalty both in the US and in other countries as well. The three most famous organizations working on this mission are Amnesty International, National Coalition and The Death Penalty Project. According to Amnesty, this method is “cruel, inhumane and degrading” (Amnesty, 2018). As a result, the polls from Gallup present that the support for the death penalty in 2017 was the lowest since 1972
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In the waiting time, they are refused to meet others and are held alone for more than 23 hours a day. In addition, they do not know when it is and can be waiting for over 20 years for their execution. This can be seen as a physically torture method that goes contrary against the right to live free from torture. In contrary, the supporters state that the culprit deserves this.
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