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Policy Paper  Committee: Human Rights Topic: Capital Punishment Country: Netherlands Moira Cleary Per. 3  __BACKGROUND OF TOPIC:__ Capital punishment is a continually debated topic of the day, and has been one for thousands of years. Punishment by death, more in more into the present, has been questioned for its morality and ethicality to the world. Back in biblical times, the punishments were for much more ordinary crimes and the punishment itself was harsher, however, many people do not approve of terminating one’s life. On one side, the way in which the death penalty has been carried out is more humane than the past. On the other side, people should be punished for their crimes with the same proportions as the crime they committed. In the world, 91 countries have completely obliterated the death penalty, and the other 106 countries have some form of it, whether in full swing, or just for extremely exceptional crimes.

__UN INVOLVMENT: __ The United Nations have been having problems and debates about capital punishment ever since it was first recognized as so in 1945. A permanent international outlaw or otherwise has never been established and recognized because there is really nothing that the United Nations can do; they must respect the authorities and their decisions of a country, so they can’t legally outlaw capital punishment, but the UN has also been trying to give the people as many of their human rights as they need. However, the UN has passed fifty different solutions to try and stop its usage, and they are doing everything in their power to abolish the death penalty. Also, many people of a country are uniting to help stop capital punishment.

__COUNTRY POLICY: __ The country of Netherlands is proud to state that it has abolished any usage of the death penalty and is using much more humane solutions to criminal intents. Netherlands is also sad to say that sixty-two countries are still using the death penalty for regular crimes. We believe that the world should definitely outlaw any abilities to terminate a life in judiciary measures. We have not carried out one execution on any person since March of 1952, and we have no interest in reintroducing the technique at any time. True, many of the citizens of Netherlands have wavered in whether or not capital punishment is ethical, the standing is only at a slight 52%-48%, and those who are favoring it are of the young and less educated. All in all, the favoring is temporary, and it will fade as those young and less educated become older and more educated.

__SOLUTIONS: __ Netherlands believes that the UN needs to draft a solution to end all usage of the death penalty, and it needs to be drafted as quickly as possible. One short-term solution that Netherlands has is to place sanctions upon un-cooperative countries, and keep it on until the country has given up their capital punishment laws. A possible long-term plan could be a peacekeeping group that meets bi-annually in problem countries, where they try to ethically stop capital punishment (details will be made later).

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