Paulo Brandao Melo

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My poster intended to be a metaphor for what is possible to judge and what is not. For this I used the image of the scales of justice, which in this case represents the impossibility of sentence. Alluding to what is human (Earth) and what is divine (Heaven), we realize that it is impossible to compare such different things, one weighs the other levite. The fact that all the poster was done by hand
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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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