VOlUME 01 ISSUE 01 SEPTEMBER 2024
Imran Hussain
PhD Scholar,Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities MY University, Islamabad
ABSTRACT
The current study is meant to pinpoint the efforts and exertions United Nations and other International Institutions like Amnesty International and Human Rights Commission are putting in order to abolish death penalty all around the world. The study has highlighted that this type of punishment is a severe violence of human rights i.e. right to live and others. It has also illustrated the needs to put efforts from the parts of public office holders as well as public icons to prepare the mind set and public opinion along with legal agencies to assist and make the criminal laws to save and protect the life by means of fair trial. The findings indicate that it is almost unanimous verdict of UNO, Amnesty International, Human Right Commission, NGOs, legal forum, media personals and social activists that punishments like death penalty has no clue what so ever in the 21st century.
KEYWORDS:Death Penalty, World Community, UNO, Human Rights, Right to Live
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