On the other hand, we want to reach all international laws and constitutions in an effort to abolish all penalties of death. Through parliamentarians motions and a mobilization of the international public opinion, Hands Off Cain wants the UN to declare a moratorium of the executions. The Security Council has established two International Tribunals for the crimes committed in Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Both of them prohibit the death penalty even for genocide. Therefore it is not acceptable to prescribe it inside the single States, for crimes less important.
Many people call for the maintenance or reinstatement of capital punishment.
We are nevertheless aware that mankind must progress. The dawn of the third millennium is forthcoming and the abolition of the death penalty should be considered not just a need of individuals, a further strengthening of their sphere of inviolability, but also a historical and universal need, a goal to be achieved by the end of our era, the point of convergence of different civilisations. The right not to be sentenced to death may become another common denominator, a new and irreducible dimension of the human being that makes us a single community. It happened with the abolition of slavery and the banning of torture. Hands Off Cain organizes fundraising events and receives grants from sponsors.