Declan Divin

United Kingdom

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In this piece I want the viewer to give thought to how the death penalty can be taken in different ways. The electric chair, lethal injection, firing squad, hanging and beheading are the major methods of death used throughout history. In a penalty shootout the ball doesn't always go in the net, and when people are given the penalty it doesn't always work. In these situations we need to rea
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Death is not justice


Our 2010 project asked for the universal abolition of the death penalty.
For us it’s simple. The death penalty is a violation of human rights. Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” How does that fit with beheading, stoning, hanging, lethally injecting or shooting someone?

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The death penalty is not justice

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