Hello guys,

I have been recently very interested in the death penalty topic. However my interests are strictly legal and I keep away from any moral and religious discussion about that issue, maybe because it usually does lead to nowhere. I am personally against the death penalty because I find such kind of punishment as violating the most basic human right; this is the right to life. Over all these years that I have been interested in that issue I heard only one good argument worth consideration in favor for death penalty and it was the argumentation that the death penalty allows to restore the balance between the offender and the victim destroyed by the act of committing a crime (usually resulting in a death of the victim).

Here is an article devoted to legal aspects of death penalty under international law:
http://www.europeancourier.org/DeathPenalty.htm

And here is also another interesting article, which I recommend, this time about international influence on the application of death penalty in the USA:
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/arti...cid=17&did=806

Take care,