artists vs death penalty

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Arthur Judah Angel, Exonerated Death Row Artist

DEATH THE BLIND TEACHER.

A Teacher show the light, correct, transform, reform but death terminates and destroys giving its victims no chance for a change. every society still retaining death penalty is still blind to sound reasoning.

DIVIDENDS OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT?

NO dividend. We lost lives and treasures in them. Enough of this abuse.

DON'T KILL FOR ME.

The only solution to death penalty is abolition. Don't kill for me.

THE GALLOWS.

In this age and time, WHY THE GALLOWS? WHY?

ARTHUR JUDAH ANGEL

.Date of birth; 21 November 1962
.Self trained Artist, self employed, full time professional, human rights activist, author, Motivational Speaker."A humanist, (Arthur) works on projects that promotes life and restores hope to those who have despaired- Hence Life bridge/Rumbles Entertainment - a pet project 'Arthur' conceived and is pursuing for the rehabilitation/reintegration of ex convicts and youth empowerment respectively.

http://www.lifewireinternational.org/

Monday, August 8, 2011

Robert Butts, Death Row Artist

First published on http://artistsvsdeathpenalty.blogspot.com/

http://www.pocklingtonartscentre.co.uk/shows+on/05-08-2011

http://www.amicus-alj.org/resources/RobertButts.php

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson

When thinking about capital punishment, and the various moral and ethical issues it raises, it seems to us that there is no better argument against the death penalty than the case of Stefan Kiszko -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lesley_Molseed .

He was the subject of a major miscarriage of justice in the 1970. Although not a victim of judicial murder, well....not by direct means anyway, his case is a powerful argument against capital punishment in the ways in which it reveals the pragmatics of the judicial system. It is a particularly stark example as to the distortions that can occur in the interplay of individual, systemic and bureaucratic power.

Perhaps we should follow Hannah Arndt in realizing that any violence becomes truly barbaric at the point at which it becomes rationalised. Or maybe, when we think of the case of Stefan Kiszko, we don't need even to advance that far. We can simply recognise that the legal system, like any analytical system, is susceptible to those distortions resultant from the exercise of its own power and as such can never be permitted to exercise the power of life over death.

Created for www.artistsvsdeathpenallty.blogspot.com

March 2011

http://www.croweandrawlinson.net/

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Ken Aptekar

"maybe yes if maybe not,"

60" x 60" (153cm x 153cm),

four panels, oil on wood, sandblasted glass, bolts,
1991

The problem with the death penalty: that we base our decisions to murder someone as punishment on "facts" that are often proven to be falsehoods later on, but once someone is dead, there's no way to right the wrongful punishment of death.

Death is simply not open to question.

http://kenaptekar.net/
http://repainterdiaries.com/