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Essay On Death Penalty In Australia

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No one has been executed in Australia since the 2nd of February in 1967. The last incident of execution was when a man named Ronald Ryan was found guilty of shooting a prison guard in an attempt to escape the jail. He was hung in Melbourne. Queensland put an end to the death penalty in 1922. Tasmania did the same in 1968, The federal government ended the death penalty in 1973. Some countries still have the death penalty, the top three countries with the highest execution rate are: China, United states and Pakistan. In South Australia, forty-four hangings took place in the Adelaide Gaol. The society agreed that the death penalty wasn’t the right way to go so in 1976 the Criminal Law Consolidation Act was modified, changing the death penalty …show more content…

The death penalty basically says that the guilty people will never change and always be a criminal but people do change and become good. People might abuse the death penalty by planning a crime to try get someone else in trouble, this will cause an innocent person to be killed. So people can kill who they want to kill, but not actually be the one who kills them. Executing someone teaches that person nothing, they can do the worse crime and then just die. Maybe that person wants to die so he goes on a killing spree then gets sentenced to death. But in the end, the death penalty is killing someone, even if they are a criminal, it’s still murder.

1948: Everyone has a right to protection of life. It states that no one should be subjected to a cruel punishment. The death penalty violates these rights.

1966: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights stated "no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life, and that the death penalty shall not be imposed on pregnant women or on those who were under the age of 18 at the time of the crime. No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”

1993: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia stated “the death penalty is not an option, even for the most heinous crimes known to civilisation, including

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