Without showing the rest of the prisoner's body, a stark face rendered in red to physiologically link it to blood as well a symbolical link to anger, anxiety, and frustration, this poster exposes the brutality of capital punishment. Although the prisoner has a calm expression, seemingly ready to accept his death, if the firing squad misses the heart of a prisoner accidentally or intentionally,
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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?
By Accident or Intention
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