Amnesty International

Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. It is vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. Amnesty International tries to prevent and and grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination.

Amnesty International is independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion. It is democratic, self-governing movement. Major policy decisions are taken buy International Council made up of representatives from all national sections.Amnesty International has a varied network of members and supporters around the world. At the latest count, there were more than 2.2 million members, supporters and subscribers in over 150 countries and territories in every region of the world.

In Lithuania Amnesty International concerns about violence against women, “anti-terrorism” measures, protection for asylum-seekers and the rights of conscientious objectors were among those raised by international monitoring bodies.

Never again

There are four main arguments which support capital punishment. Deterrence theory says that criminals will be afraid to commit a crime, because they will know that they can die too if they were caught. The idea of public security mean that convicted murderer won't be able to murder again, because he won't be set free. The other arguments are more disputable, because one says that criminals should pay for what they did and other that keeping them alive in prisons is a waist of money. First argument against is statistical, it shows that despite executions number the number of homucides are growing. Second argument is that people can be convicted incorrectly. And the last ones are grounded by people's conscience and belief, because state has to show an example of not taking lifes and all Christians have to forgive not to revenge.