The most severe of all sentences: that
of death. Also known as the death penalty, capital punishment this is the most
severe form of corporal punishment as it is requires law enforcement officers
to kill the offender. But, capital punishment is a very strong issue in today's
society. In my eyes punishment should be on a case to case basis. In the
capital punishment debate there are 3 major issues, Deterrence, Arbitrariness,
and Retribution.
Deterrence is the inhibition of
criminal behavior by fear especially of punishment. This in easier terms just
means that once someone commits a crime, if they are harshly punished for it,
other people should then be afraid to commit a crime. Which is related to the
idea that it is believed that fear of death deters people from committing
crime. Studies of the deterrent effect of the death penalty have been conducted
for several years, with varying results. Most of these studies have failed to
produce evidence that the death penalty deterred murders more effectively then
the threat of imprisonment. The reason for this is that few people are executed
and so the death penalty is not a satisfactory deterrent. In conclusion if
harsher punishment was carried out, there would be a lower crime rate.
The second issue is arbitrariness or determined
by or arising from impulse rather than ruling. Fairness requires that people
who break the law be punished the same but we treat it on a case-to-case
punishment. Wrongful conviction, if acting on impulse they might have the wrong
person. Which means the criminal is still out there, and someone else is going
to die instead of the person who deserves death. Also, that means it’s risky to
carry out capital punishment.
And is based on
claimants cancel the death penalty and replace it with penalties of deprivation
of liberty to the justification boils mostly in. The death penalty is useless
because it has not been proven in a country that expected decline in the number
of crimes, also that this punishment repulsive and abhors them souls.
Proponents for the
survival of the death penalty rely on the following arguments. If life is a
gift from God, the freedom is also a gift from God and therefore should be
abolished penalties of deprivation of freedom, also the claim not to the
benefit of this punishment is was doubtful because he can not figure out the
number of refrained from committing crimes because of the existence of the
death penalty.
These are the
arguments of the two teams and discussion is still raging in the corridors of
the offices of the men of the law and thought, psychologists, philosophy, and
perhaps this is the punishment of the most controversial penalties
