Amnesty International Response to Department of Justice 2005 Death Penalty Report
U.S. Newswire, December, 2006
To: National Desk
Contact: Jason Opena Disterhoft of Amnesty International USA, 202- 544-0200 ext. 302 or jdisterhoft@aiusa.org
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Sue Gunawardena-Vaughn, director of Amnesty International USA's Program to Abolish the Death Penalty, issued the following statement in response to the Department of Justice's release of its report on the death penalty in 2005:
"Year after year, both the number of people on death row and the number of new death row inmates have been declining. Public officials and juries are increasingly recognizing that the capital punishment system is irreparably broken. As well as being immoral and constituting a clear violation of human rights, the death penalty is ineffective, inefficient and a wasteful use of...
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