Amnesty International Response to Department of Justice 2005 Death Penalty Report
10 December 2006 Sue Gunawardena-Vaughn, director of Amnesty International USA's Program to Abolish the Death Penalty, issued the following statement in response to the Department of Justice's release of its report on the death penalty in 2005:
"Year after year, both the number of people on death row and the number of new death row inmates have been declining. Public officials and juries are increasingly recognizing that the capital punishment system is irreparably broken. As well as being immoral and constituting a clear violation of human rights, the death penalty is ineffective, inefficient and a wasteful use of public resources.
"The new Department of Justice report adds to the already overwhelming evidence that support for capital punishment is eroding. The system is a relic of the past. The time has come to abolish the death penalty."
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