Campaign : to work together to abolish the death penalty by the constitutions and laws of the countries in the Middle East and North Africa

To work together for the abolition of the death penalty from the constitutions and laws

For many centuries, death sentences issued and implemented many of the right people in different parts of the world, as the harshest punishment can be meted out to any human being, as it meant that looting rights the right to life.

.This was a penalty and still sometimes issued on behalf of the gods and the other in God's name or the name of the rulers, or even the name of the people and the law, but were consistently reflect the contents of Cairo and absolute cruelty inherent therein.

.This was the punishment is still practiced pretext that it represents deterrent to others in order to avoid committing similar crimes leading to a person under sentence of death.

.But the experiences of peoples throughout history confirm beyond any doubt that the punishment did not prevent the occurrence of any event of heinous crimes committed by this person or that, as the material basis for crime prevention lies in the reality of the level of development of society and circumstances where individuals.

.Experience has also shown that many people have abolished the death penalty for many years, and because of positive changes in the lives of those communities, has shrunk the crimes that the perpetrators were subjected to the death penalty.

.While still committed the same crimes, or even more in those countries that practice the death penalty.

.We must denounce the death penalty issue and implement the right of children who can not be subjected to the same standards that punished on the basis of the elderly, and thus the abolition of death penalty for children is supposed to cancel before other, as they each violation of ethical standards and legal and humanitarian. ..

.The information available from scientific institutions, and applied research and Amnesty International that the perpetrators of the crimes of murder, robbery or rape with murder ... etc., they often suffer from various psychiatric and neurological and social contract, The crimes have been linked directly to those ills and social conditions in which they live and suffer under.

.Also found across many field studies and files death sentences to more than a few of those who carried with them the death sentence were not the perpetrators of those crimes, but innocent of what is attributed to them, The blunders committed in the investigation, witnesses made false statements incorrect and led to the issuance and implementation of the provisions of the execution can no longer be corrected.

.The death penalty in essence reflect a vengeance, as stated in one of the oldest codes set by the legal systems in the old Iraq, the code of Hammurabi known, a "tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye" any violator punish the same crime committed and not on the basis of justice, education and reform of the individual perpetrator of a crime of any nature, and especially since the government issued official state institutions.

.If the crime is committed by one person, the death penalty committed by the State of the duty to protect human life.

.Not right of the State or any other individual robbed the life of another human being has committed a crime, however heinous, perhaps even requires the accused to medical treatment or the death penalties, such as imprisonment for life or any other appropriate non-death penalty and re-education, any punishment as allowing the continued survival and learn from the crime he committed.

.We call for the advancement of humanity wide campaign for the abolition of the death penalty from the constitutions and laws of all countries of the Middle East and North Africa, after the number of countries that have abolished the death penalty constitutionally or practically amounted to more than 120 countries in whole or in part.