South Sudan: Summary Executions in North

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Human Rights Watch also reviewed reports by the United Nations, community groups, and the local media as well as videos posted on social media platforms.
48% : Chiefs have the authority to make arrests but must hand suspects over to the police "without unnecessary delay," and national law enforcement generally carry out the chiefs' and their courts' decisions on petty criminal and civil matters.
45% : At the conference, community representatives signed a declaration, seen by Human Rights Watch, that among other things, recommended "imposing death penalty through a fire squad" on criminals.
44% : as to when, if ever, it can legitimately impose the death penalty.
40% : International human rights standards support abolition of the death penalty as a form of punishment, and while international law permits the penalty of death in very limited circumstances, it may only be applied to the most serious crimes and following absolute strict due process.
38% : Human Rights Watch opposes the death penalty as a uniquely cruel and irreversible punishment in all circumstances.

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