Sunday, August 26, 2007

Death Penalty

I definitely support death penalty. According to Antonio Cassese, if you would to keep murderers in prison, the probability that they might kill again is very high. In order to ensure the safety of our society, capital punishment against murders is the most appropriate one. Moreover, if the government decides to keep them in prison for life instead of killing them, they have to spend a lot more money at the expense of the community. Capital punishment also does deter other murderers, which is the most effective way to bring down crime rate. According to Becker, murderers fight very hard in order to not get caught, this proves that they fear capital punishments. Lastly, it is justifiable to kill a murderer as he took someone’s life away, thus he have to pay for it with his own life, as referred to an old law of “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” Statistics had also proven that a country with capital punishment has a much lower crime rate than those who do not have.

However, careful investigation must be carried out before carrying out capital punishments. This is to prevent the execution of innocent people. Also, death penalty debate should not absorb all our attention. If we intend to abolish the gallows, we should also fight for the prevention of crime and against the inhumanity of many prisons. After all, what is the point of suggesting imprisonment as an alternative to electrocution, if inmates are subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment?

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