Why Capital Punishment Still Exists
Capital punishment has been a cause for debate for many years, and people continue to disagree on the topic. Capital punishment may be a controversial subject, but it is one that must be addressed with today's violent society. The death penalty is believed to provide the necessary punishment and deterrent for criminals in many countries. The issue of capital punishment always comes with the problem of human rights which is a fundamental thing for a civilian. Can we really take away the criminal’s evil deed or crime by giving him another lethal blow? Below, the reasons why capital punishment should be abolished are as followed.
Firstly, from a religious point of view, capital punishment shall never be fair for a man. God says “Whosoever shed man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed.” This means one cannot take away other’s life. It is quoted right from the book of Genesis saying the creation of the world and assuming God is the master and creator of the world, thus everyone should obey and listen. According to this viewpoint, death penalty should never exist because it simply violates the principles from God.
Secondly, death penalty originally with the intention to decrease the crime rate and to threaten back the criminals shows no difference after all. It is widely believed that the existence of capital punishment shall deter the rate of crime, but later on, it is proven that the punishment didn’t make any difference on the rating. Instead, people are still unaware of the importance of life. Since the mission of reducing the crime rate could not be carried out, then why should death penalty exist? To replace the capital punishment, we should have some alternatives for it, for instance, life imprisonment.
Thirdly, the possibility of executing an innocent man could be one of the main ammunitions for anti-death penalty movements. Many may doubt that under the sound juridical system, there won’t be any mistake on judging whether or not one is convicted. But, in fact, there are many people who were now proved to be mistakenly sentenced to death sand being wronged for such a long time throughout the history. In order to prevent wronged people being sentenced to death from happening some said that it is necessary to abolish the punishment to save those wronged and innocent men.
Although lots of evidence or confrontations have been made, there’s still refutation going against with this. Several countries practice death penalty, including China, Iraq, Iran, U.S.A., and Saudi Arabia. In the United States, twelve of the states do now allow death sentence. The twelve states are Michigan, Wisconsin, Maine, Minnesota, North Dakota, Hawaii, Alaska, Iowa, West Virginia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont. One major way the death penalty helps is that it could console a family if someone is murdered and the convicted criminal is put to death. A perfect example was Timothy Mc Veigh when he was put to death in 2001, which was the first execution by the government since 1963 (CNN.Com). Therefore, the death penalty is good because the inmates, who deserve to be killed, should be killed.
In summary, we have seen three major reasons why capital punishment should be abolished from above though coming along with a refutation. Nevertheless, the issue of capital punishment has been hotly debated for a long time since 18th century, which I assumed that it would continue to be controversial in no matter what country or religion. But, there is one thing we can be sure of is that if the punishment went against the human right, it should be removed at once so as to protect the basic right of a man.
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