Well great sleep last night, just didn’t focus on American dad so much! So after checking my emails I did what I normally do which is go onto my Igoogle page and skim over the many RSS feeds I have from design and creative related blogs around the world. One in particular caught my attention, not so much design or creative related but more moral and ethical related. The article was about the death sentence and the many forms it exists in around the world:

“We want universal abolition of the death penalty in 2010.It’s simple. The death penalty is a violation of human rights.Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”

How does that fit with beheading, stoning, hanging, lethally injecting or shooting someone?The problem is that there’s no going back on a death sentence. And in a world where every judicial system makes mistakes, it’s inevitable that innocent people will be executed. Which is simply not acceptable. More than two thirds of countries in the world agree, and have banned executions.Sadly, shamefully, 58 still persist in killing people in the name of “justice.”In 2009, countries with the highest number of executions were Iran (with at least 388 executions), Iraq (at least 120), Saudi Arabia (at least 69), and the United States (52).In China information regarding the death penalty remains a secret, but estimates show that China executes more people than the rest of the world combined.

*But there is hope – the number of people being executed around the world appears to be declining. And in December the United Nations will vote on a universal moratorium on the death penalty. It’s a vital step towards abolishing the death penalty once and for all.No matter whether you live in a country that practices capital punishment or not, we have to raise awareness across the whole world that the death penalty is a violation of human rights that has no place in modern society.

The death penalty is not justice. I don’t want it done in my name, my country, or our world.”

This got me thinking about how I could raise the awareness of the subject matter through a visual poster. The last sentence made me think of people holding hands, when we say our world it sounds as a community and so surely the death sentence is in our hands too. From that I remembered when I was young, we would make cut outs from folded up paper and then pull them out to reveal a symmetrical chain of objects. Sometimes even people shapes, it was always a case of the longer the better! Anyway here’s how the blurb started out:

So heres the final posters derived from that idea of paper cut outs, finishing my second day of creativity:

(coming soon….. Just need to print them out on large paper and photograph)