Key words:
Key concepts:
- Societies that use death penalty don’t have lower crime rates
- Death penalty targets the economically disadvantaged
- The death penalty is irreversible and never acceptable
- Everyone has the right to live and no one should be subjected to torture
- Human rights apply to all human beings
- This punishment abuses basic human rights
- The right to life is inalienable
In this video, Jeremy Irons outlines his arguments and counter-arguments about death penalty:
- Death penalty does not guarantee a lower crime rate. Even if it does, it won’t be acceptable.
- Capital punishment means that those who have no capital gets the punishment.
- There is no way to go back from the death penalty, even if the person who was punished with it was actually innocent.
- Inadequate legal representation means capital punishment.
- Everyone has the right to live regardless of the crime they have committed.
- Every individual facing the death penalty is still a human being.
- Equality means human rights are applied to all human beings.
- People and the judicial system should be able to differentiate imprisonment from execution.
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