The inmate's weight is matched to the sandbag to determine the length of 'drop' necessary to ensure a quick death. If the rope is too lengthy, the inmate could be decapitated, and if too short, the strangulation could take as long as 45 minutes (deathpenaltycurriculum.org). With a striking white rope with bloody red outlines as reflected in the upside down decapitated head against a bl
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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?
More revenge than deterrence
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