Capital punishment is not only useless in deterring...

Capital punishment is not only useless in deterring crime, but is also inhumane and unjustifiable, Walid Slaibi, head of the Human Rights Movement in Lebanon, said. "There have been rumours circulating that four convicted prisoners are to be executed soon" Slaibi said during a news conference at the Press Federation, "and we are here today to express our total opposition to the death penalty, whatever the reasons, whatever the circumstances." Capital punishment is a "threefold escape," according to Slaibi. "It's an escape from facing the causes of these crimes and trying to fix them, an escape from responsibility to the prisoner's parents and an escape from the criminal's social rehabilitation," he said. He called sentencing someone to death the "easy way" of rendering justice. "It saves those in charge the trouble of facing responsibilities and replaces those responsibilities with the hangman's rope," Slaibi said.