my Journal 2

Evaluation of Article from Internet Site,
June 20, 2007

The website is presenting their arguments on capital punishment through several chapters which are written by different authors. As all the chapters’ content is useable in doing my argumentative essay, therefore I am not specifying in any chapter of it but the website itself. Human Rights Watch is the website for the posted articles, which is a United States based international non-governmental organization that advocates human rights by carrying out researches regarding particular issue. It used to reporting on exploitations of international human rights norms that was set out by Universal Declaration of Human Rights to alert the public of protecting their rights and serves the purpose of averting right abuses as well. Articles produced by HRW are considered credible as they used to conduct researches to investigate and reveal the truths by providing facts garnered.

Time of completion is different for every chapter but it is ranging from year 1994 to 2006. Eventually it gives a panorama of capital punishment in United States since the past till now time. The timeline provides a comprehensive data on the development of capital punishment that includes, the description of past year cases, aspects in capital punishment that provokes debate, position of governments on the issue and involvement of international organizations to advocate their stand. It can be said that the timeliness is helping to present the accuracy of the articles but totally not affected it.

Some chapters of the website are even exposing the letters submitted to the government in attempt to urge the reformation of justice system or request of commutating death sentences of particular criminals. Facts are provided through statistics, citation of the President and professionals, jurisdiction of Supreme Court and government reports. Values of the articles posted have been proven by those facts. It is convincing as HRW reveals their attempts and actions to the public on figuring out the way to reduce the tragedy brought by capital punishment.

http://hrw.org/doc/?t=usa_deathpenalty

-Gan Shiu Kem-