Although it is argued that capital punishment is a strong deterrent against crimes and serves as a just punishment, however, capital punishment should be abolished because it is a violation of human rights, carries the risk to execute innocent people is a burden on taxpayers' money and is discriminatory in its application. Capital punishment was considered a violation of human rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948 recognizes that every person has the right to life and further states “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”. The death penalty, however, constitutes a violation of both these fundamental human rights as it denies individuals the fundamental right to life in the name of justice and the punishment is painful in all its forms. Furthermore, despite efforts to make the death penalty as painless as possible, it has been observed that all methods used for capital punishment are painful. Execution methods commonly used around the world, including electrocution, gas chamber, hanging, shooting and lethal injections, are painful in nature or can lead to a very painful death in case of accidents. Amnesty International affirms this by saying: “If hanging a woman by her arms until she feels excruciating pain is rightly condemned as torture, how can one describe hanging her by the neck until she dies? If administering 100 volts of electricity to the most sensitive parts of a man's body causes disgust, what is the appropriate reaction to administering 2,000 volts to his body to kill him? Does the use of legal processes in these cruelties make their inhumanity justifiable?” . Lethal injection... at the heart of the document... the process of capital punishment in economic and racial terms puts something as sacred as the life of human beings at risk in the hands of prejudice, which is not tolerable. Works Cited (http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/)(http://www.amnesty.org/fr/library/asset/ACT51/002/2007/fr/3e2fffb6-d36a-11dd -a329 -2f46302a8cc6/act510022007en.html).(http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/death-penalty/us-death-penalty-facts/death-penalty-and-innocence).(http :// /www.mysinchew.com/node/52499)(http://www.seamonitors.org/id131.html)( http://www.deathpenalty.org/article.php?id=42)( http :// www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-voices-police-chief-says-death-penalty-isnt-anywhere-my-list%E2%80%9D)( http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/new- resources-representation -and-costs-federal-death-penalty-cases)(http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/node/692)(http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0628-09.htm)