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by Nathaniel Batchelder #1. Every western democracy and industrialized nation except the U.S. has abolished the death penalty. Till recently, only the U.S., South Africa, and the USSR among industrialized nations still used the death penalty. South Africa has renounced the death penalty. The USSR no longer exists. Continue reading 15 Reasons to Oppose the Death Penalty 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 [...] Continue reading Amnesty International USA’s Program to Abolish the Death Penalty Poverty and hunger are pandemic in our world, although we in the USA seem shielded from knowing or seeing the vast suffering it causes. Half of humanity survives on $2-a-day or less, without reliable access to safe water. Twenty percent of humanity — some $1.3 billion people — survive on $1-a-day or less with little hope of safe water. Because of this poverty, and the absence of simple health care [...] Continue reading Hunger and Poverty |
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