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Name: Jimmie Despain Country: North Korea Topic: Capital Punishment Commitee: 6th legal Period: 3rd

__ II. Background __ Capital Punishment or the death sentance has been used to scare criminals into not commiting crimes.Crimes such as serial killings,capital crimes and many more are punishable to the death sentance.There are only 78 countries that have the right to sentance the death sentance. Those countries believe in that if someone kills another then that person deserves to die, but we have to remember the great words of Ghandi " An eye for an eye makes the world go blind."There are different levels of abolishing the death sentance. There is total abolishment, where it is not tolerated under any circumstances, abolished except for special circumstances, and not abolished at all. In 2007 there were 42 people were executed none of those people were women. People support the death sentance because; some people just cannot change some people, too deadly for this world, crowds in prisons, and general thoughts (if a person is sentenced to life in prison and there is no hope for him getting out, why not kill him). People belive that everyone can be given a second chance and can be good, the converse of that is, too many chances can be given, and a person can be born evil at heart. The general thought against Capital Punishment is that everyone has the right to live, and the freedom of their lives. And the government should not take the place of that. The general thought with Capital Punishment is that people are too deadly for this world and they can never change so we kill them.

 __**ll.UN Involvement**__  The UN has written the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" to educate people on human rights. Article Five of the  Universal Declaration of Human Rights   states:   "No one shall be subjected to torture, or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.". This states that every human has the right to live even in degrading jails, and they should not die, no matter how in-humane the crime was.  The Universal Declaration of Human Rights passed in 1948. The UN also protects minors from the death penalty, in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is accepted throughout the world, except in Somalia and the US. The UN has created many documents and treaties to end this punishment, but they have not succeeded yet.

 **__lll. Country Policy __** North Korea has always been for the death sentance and still stands for it to this day.The death sentance is a bad thing ofcourse,but North Korea is doing a bad thing for a good reason.Some countries believe that people change,but we also have to acount for the people who will never change. For example in March 18th 2006 North Korea issued a special decree that called for the maximum penalty of death for its citizens involved in manufacturing and trafficking drugs.If those drug trafficers got out of jail they would most likely keep on trafficing drugs.However on a better note North Korea doesn't believe that children should be sentenced to death, because they have the rest of their lives ahead of them and they have time to improve themselves and become better people.North Korea participated in the sixty- second General Assembly, on Oct. 30, 2007, in order to support the moratorium of capital punishment, because we understand that this is a violation of human rights, and takes away the dignity of mankind.

North Korea has participated in many solutions in order to end or at least suspend the use of capital punishment. We completely support the Rights of a Child, because children can still be taught to change their ways, better than adults can. We would like to propose C.P.R, Capital Punishment Rights. This would propose our need to give all the countries in the world their own choice to use the death penalty. We would like to propose the C.F.E Children Free of Execution, we believe that to totally ablolish the death sentance everywhere we need to better understand how it can help us,and how it can not.
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__Work Cited: http://www.handsoffcain.info/archivio_news/200603.php?iddocumento=8310651&mover=1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_North_Korea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea__