Kirk ready to condemn the death penalty

The Assembly discussed the death penalty briefly last year in relation
to Saddam Hussein and expressed disappointment at the lack of condemnation
of his execution from politicians in the UK.

Now a report by the Church & Society Council argues the death penalty
brutalises any society which practices it.

The report says that no system of justice is free from error or
arbitrariness and the threat of the death penalty has manifestly failed
to deter murder, war crimes and genocide.

It goes on to say that the death penalty conflicts with the right to
life enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights.

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