article_snippet.sent: Today, Amnesty International releases Amnesty International annual review of the death penalty worldwide.  
article_snippet.sent: Other countries made use of executions in similarly flawed attempts to address -- or appear to address -- crime rates.
article_snippet.sent: The simple fact is that governments using the death penalty to tackle crime and security threats are deceiving governments using the death penalty to tackle crime and security threats or the public or both.
article_snippet.sent: There is no evidence that the threat of execution is more of a deterrent to crime than a prison sentence, as United Nations and other studies have repeatedly confirmed.
article_snippet.sent: It is high time that world leaders stop using the death penalty as an easy way out when times get tough.
article_snippet.sent: At Amnesty International, we have campaigned for an end to the death penalty for decades.
article_snippet.sent: Those governments that still execute need to realize that Those governments that still execute need to realize that they are on the wrong side of history are on the wrong side of history.
article_snippet.sent: Those governments that still execute need to realize that they are on the wrong side of history must join the vast majority of countries which have dropped the ultimate cruel punishment.
article_snippet.sent: Fighting for an end to the death penalty remains an uphill task, but all of us must try to make the world free of the ultimate cruel punishment.
highlights_snippet.sent: Amnesty International releases Amnesty International annual review of the death penalty worldwide; much of Amnesty International makes for grim reading .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Salil Shetty: Countries that use executions to deal with problems are on the wrong side of history .