gavel hit to chisel are used to give a sign for a verification of a punishment has been declared in court. this is why a gavel is an icon of supreme power that could bring judgement to convicted person. the poster is to remind the judges to be careful when give a death sentence to convicted person because it is by their action / by their hands that a person life being taken away...
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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?
Bloody Mallet
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