Does The Death Row Phenomenon Violate Human Rights

In the academic journal “Does the Death Row Phenomenon Violate a Prisoner’s Human Rights under International Law?” written by Patrick Hudson provides key points if this Phenomenon violates human right and if so how does it. The Death Row Phenomenon can be explained two different ways in the international legal system. The first commonly used definition for this term is the period of time that a convicted prisoner has to wait on death row, the second use of this term is the brutal, dehumanizing conditions of imprisonment. (Hudson, 2000) An example of the long period a prisoner has to wait on death row has increased almost three times from the nineteenth century from only 51 months in 1977 to 133 months in 1997. “These conditions can easily lead

After he had committed the murder his girlfriend and him fled to the United Kingdom where they were both arrested six months later. With the united states wanted to extradite them back to the states to convict them only Haysom returned to receive 90 years in prison while Soering would not because the what his punishment would be that his time being in prisons would violate Article 3 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. “Article 3 is the relevant portion of discussion because it states that ‘[n]o one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” (Hudson, 2000, P. 838) Later in the article it talks about how the delay is not a violation because of three main factors: The Committee found that allowing delay in execution to constitute a violation of the Covenant would be inconsistent with the object and purposes of the ICCPR, the Committee does not want to convey a message that states should execute prisoners as fast as possible, and that other circumstances, when combined with prolonged detention, can give rise to a violation of the