10 Rillington Place

Artists interact with the events and issues of their time and place and this is shown with Australian artist Brett Whiteley’s artwork series called “the Christie series”. Some of Whiteley’s artworks include “Head of Christie”, “Christie and Hectoria McLennan”, “10 Rillington Place” and “Christie and Kathleen Maloney”. Brett Whiteley is an Australian artist paints his artworks in an abstract way. He was born on the 7th of April 1939 and he died on the 15 June 1992.Whiteley was a passionate artist

of innocent people which in turn, leads to serious miscarriages of justice. This is the primary argument as to why Capital Punishment should not be reinstated because, there have been unlawful executions of innocent civilians who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. This argument aims mainly towards the Derek Bentley case as Derek Bentley was wrongly executed for the murder of a police officer when it was his accomplice, Christopher Craig who pulled the trigger and killed the police officer

of Human Rights (UDHR) adopted by the United Nations in 1948, which contains a list of each human rights that everyone is entitled to (UDHR 1948). Nevertheless, in 2016 alone at least 1,032 people were executed in 23 countries; most executions took place in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan (Amnesty International 2017). The essay will