Human rights campaigner Amnesty International has stunned the international community by brokering a non-intervention treaty with nations that still enforce the death penalty, on the understanding that the condemned are to be given a fighting chance of an elaborate escape. ‘We have agreed to lay off countries that insist on taking human life, often after grave miscarriages of justice, so long as they promise to use slower and less effective methods of execution in order to give prisoners at least one last chance of escape,’ said an Amnesty spokesperson. ‘Over the years we’ve tried to have the death penalty abolished, but we realise now that is never going to happen. And frankly, some of these bastards have it coming.’
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