Penalty Capital punishment, as the highest form of punishment a state would uphold has been a long debated Issue. Often dubbed as Death Penalty, Deborah White defined It as “the pre-meditated and planned taking of a human life by the state In response to a crime committed by that legally convicted person. ” Personally, I’m not In favor of making death penalty the highest form of punishment. To support this many points are to be considered: (1) The value of life.
Life cannot be measured thus death penalty cannot measure the worth of life that even the worst criminal should be prided of his own life. Everyone has the right to live and by subjecting the individual to death penalty would destitute his right to life. (2) Retribution is morally flawed and a problematic concept; thus making it immoral for it is Just a sanitized form of vengeance. Retribution in the case of death penalty is not fair because the expected suffering of the criminal before execution would probably outweigh the suffering of the victim, making it imbalance and unfair.
Death penalty brings double punishment, for execution and proceeding would mismatch the crime done. Since death penalty Is not operated retributive, It should not be use to Justify capital punishment. Life Imprisonment without parole possibility Is much more suffering than death. (3) Death penalty doesn’t deter people from committing serious crime. Being caught and punished is the thing that deters them to do so. True deterrence is through increased detection, arrest and conviction for justice. (4)As morality is concern, Death penalty is cruel, inhumane and degrading.
This is so because all ways of executing a person cause so much suffering to him that this amount to self ordure which is wrong. It represent “brutal and unusual punishment” whatever means used by the state to kill are vindictive. (5) Death penalty is used disproportionably to the poor and weak, who cannot afford expensive legal means, as well as against racial, ethnic and religious minorities. (6) A rehabilitated criminal can make a morally valuable contribution to the society. Whenever he was executed he can no longer return to the society.
There are times that condemned criminals repent, express regret, and experience spiritual rehabilitation few moments before the execution. 7) And the well-argued reason against death penalty is the incident of killing innocent people because of flaws in investigation and justice system. There is no perfect Justice system; therefore it would be unfair and inevitable that innocent people will be convicted of the crime. When death penalty is used, such mistakes cannot be corrected anymore. As long as the Justice system remains fallible, the danger of executing the innocent can never be eliminated.
