Abolish the Death Penalty By: Mike Mahmudi E-mail: mmahmudi@aol.com Death Penalty The death penalty is a major issue that brings up a lot of arguments in our society. The most important question concerning the death penalty is whether it should be abolished or not. I think that the death penalty is the ultimate denial of human rights. It violates the right to life as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It …showed first 75 words of 2943 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2943 total…been executed in the past and statistics show that several innocent people are convicted of capital crimes in the United States each year. No matter what reason a government gives for killing prisoners in its custody and no matter what execution method used, the death penalty cannot be apart from the issue of human rights. Human rights are not given by governments, and they cannot be taken away by governments. Human rights belong to everyone.