The Death Row: An Argument for Death Penalty Abolition?

Pressures to abolish capital punishment throughout the world are huge. Even if de facto there are no executions or if their number is reduced, even if the states restrict the area of offenses for which this penalty is applicable, it remains a reality of our world. One of the discretionary features of the ,,modern" death penalty is the ,,death row" phenomenon. This is actually an inhuman and prolonged detention, a delay between the death sentence pronunciation and its execution (or non-execution), delay qualified as torture. The paper is focused on the conditions of detention and on the lenght of this ,,undeserved" (in terms of retributive justice) agony of a detainee, on the human dignity respect an, also, on the inequal clemency activity developed in the last years by governments as possible arguments in favour of the death penalty abolition.