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Matthew Tran Committee 4 Topic: Capital Punishment Country: Thailand


 * l.** **__BACKGROUND OF THE TOPIC:__**

When thinking about capital punishment, otherwise known as the death penalty, many people agree with the fact that they want the people who committed serious crimes, most often called a capital offense or a capital crime, to suffer death. If the criminal has murdered a person's loved one, the person would want revenge, most of the time being capital punishment. However, what is overlooked on capital punishment is that it is the life of another person that the death penalty is taking.

The opponents of the act of capital punishment usually call this kind of action "barbaric and uncivilized". In addition, the supporters of capital punishment believe that since the beginning of the use of capital punishment it should discourages serious crimes such as murder or treason. Capital punishment supporters and others have believed this for thousands of years. However, in Thailand, even with capital punishment in use the crime rate in Thailand is reasonably constant and appears to ascend in the near future. This proves the theory wrong because the death penalty is useless to prevent crimes. Capital punishment is a less efficient method to stop crimes as opposed to deficiency of a person's freedom. Supporters of capital punishment think that civilization should strike back at criminals. They think the best action against the criminal is the death penalty. However, people do not realize that they are taking another life of another person making them as blameworthy as the criminal who committed the crime.

The risk of having capital punishment is use is that an innocent person may be killed. The supporters of the death penalty often disagree that enhancement in the criminal system, also with numerous appeals available to defendants, guarantee that the innocent will not be executed. This dispute fails to recognize that, "as a result of inherent human moral and perceptual imperfections, the process of determining guilt in courts will always be plagued by perjured testimonies, false confessions, withheld or missing information, mistaken eyewitness identification, laboratory errors and confused or biased jurors." Thailand is a country every year where people are put to death when the people putting to death not even knowing if they are real prisoners or not.


 * ll. __UNITED NATIONS INVOLVEMENT:__**

The United Nations plays an important role being that they try to encourage other nations to obey human rights. Amnesty International, a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all, has confirmed "that the most capital punishment occurs in four nations: China (726 executions), Iran (108 executions), United States (65 executions), and Vietnam (64 executions)." Many other nations are guilty too, however. In the attempt to take away capital punishment, the United Nations used the Declarations of Human Rights, giving every person "right to life, liberty and security of person." Ever since ratifying the document, 118 nations abolished the death penalty. Over 50 resolutions were made all abolishing the death penalty. However 60 nations still use the death penalty. The United Nations must continue their quest to bulwark the rights of criminals as it is their duty. As much as the death penalty wants to be abolished, many people worldwide, including Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, says it should be the country's decision to whether it should have capital punishment or not.


 * lll. __COUNTRY POLICY AND INVOLVEMENT:__**

Thailand is a country that still practices capital punishment. Some offenses that are liable to be penalized by capital punishment are "Regicide; Sedition or Rebellion; Offenses committed against the external security of Thailand; Murder or attempted murder of a foreign head of state; Bribery; Arson; Rape; Murder with intent; Kidnapping; Robbery". Thailand's capital punishments include lethal injections and shooting; lethal injections being the sole technique of execution. Thailand currently has approximately 1,000 men and women on the death row. Greater than 500 people were executed by shootings in Thailand. Nearly 20 miles from the capitol of Thailand lies the prison where all those sentenced to death and inside where the execution takes place is named "Place to Relieve Suffering" which holds 2 wooden crosses and 2 two stand mounted Heckler & Koch 9mm machine guns.


 * lV. __SOLUTIONS:__**

I believe that an excellent way to abolish capital punishment worldwide is to create a committee capable of this task. This committee that should be formed is called the C.R.C. - Criminal Rights Committee. This committee will ultimately support the U.N. in every action to abolish capital punishment worldwide. Like Amnesty International, this group will campaign for criminal rights. This committee will meet every 4 months on the 1st Saturday. The committee will meet in different places every time, usually where capital punishment is needed to be abolished to most.

http://www.amnesty.org.ru/library/Index/ENGASA390072003?open&of=ENG-THA
 * V.** **__BIBLIOGRAPHY:__**

http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/shooting.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_capital_punishment_by_nation

http://www.oppapers.com/essays/Death-Penalty-Thailand/155825