Death Penalty and Human Rights Standards

The Amnesty International gives a timeline about the UN and the death penalty. One important year was in 2007, when the UN General Assembly apporved Resolution 62/149 which called for all states that still maintain the death penalty to establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty.
http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/death-penalty/international-death-penalty/death-penalty-and-human-rights-standards

O'Connor worries about fairness of executions

In The Seattle Times, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has said that there are "serious questions" about whether capital punishment is being fairly administered in the United States. "If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed," O'Connor said in a speech to the Minnesota Women Lawyers group.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20010702&slug=ndig02

Restoring Fairness to the Death Penalty

On the St. Petersburg Times website, the author Daniel Ruth tells about the fairness to the death penalty in Florida. He talks about what has happened since capital punishment was restored in 1976, and retired Justice John Paul Stevens once supported the death penalty, but has sicne then reversed himself.
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/restoring-fairness-to-the-death-penalty/1137062

Top 10 Arguments for the Death Penalty

This link gives the top ten arguments for the death penalty. One example of an argument for capital punishment is: life imprisonment changes. With that argument, the authors gives events on when the sentence of life imprisonment changes (with pardons and reductions of the sentence). I agree with this because most of the violent felons in our country are repeat offenders.
http://akorra.com/2010/03/04/top-10-arguments-for-the-death-penalty/