This message attached to this image is one of double meaning. The hands are made to be seen as the shape of a rope and noose, used for hanging. These are not violent hands but hands that are calm, which sends a chilling message; that it is second nature to punish with severity in our society. The idea of the rope and hands are combined to give the meaning that by using capital punishment we, wit
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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?
Death by hanging
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