Reply Discussion Board Topic: Death Penalty
Question
The Death penalty is nowadays an expression that is used in justice for a case of someone who has committed a very serious crime. some years ago Death penalty was really hard as a punishment for condamning a criminal to receive death as a punishment for his or her crimes committed. this may be a good option for those who have been victims, but for some other such as family members of the person who has committed the crime, this decicion will not make them happy because despite the fact that their family member committed a crime, he or she is still a human being and deserves some rights.
Now with the presence of human right organization, the Death penalty is no longer the same as it was in the past, because their are so many other ways to punish someone who has committed a crime. however, the death penalty depends on one country to another. for some country the death penalty still remain death as punishment, for example, the criminal must be killed using a gun shot, or bullet; some other must be killed by being hanged. for some african traditions, the criminal was burried alive, that decisions made other people to fear committing crimes, but so many people complained about it and the decision was changed.
For other country now, the death penalty has changed the way of its punishment, the criminal will no longer be killed, but will receive a life imprisonment.
In my own opinion, somewhat i support and i do not support. on this hand if i say i support, this means that when this punishment is being executed, so many people will have fear of commiting crimes and the level of crimes will reduce for no one like to die. on the other hand, i do not support death penalty because it is to hard to bear it, if i could imagine that the criminal is my family member, despite the evil did i will prefer him to get jaiilled for life than being eliminated forever, in prison there will be a way to see him.
Texas and US shouldn’t carry out the death penalty but they must find out what punishment is good for such crime committed, some crime despite being crimes do not deserve a death penalty, criminal can go do farm works while being in prison.
Question 2
In my opinion, I think the death penalty should be abolished because of many reasons. Many people believe the saying ‘an eye for an eye’. But when people will realize that just because someone may have killed a loved one does not mean the best way for that person is to die also. People do not realize that they are putting the blood of another person life on their hands. This makes them just as guilty as the person who committed the crime: the only difference is that they did not use weapon except their mouth to kill them. The death penalty should be abolished because it is racist, punished the poor, condemns those who are innocent to death, and is a cruel punishment
The death penalty is irreversible. Absolute judgements may lead to people paying for crimes they did not commit. Texas man Cameron Todd Willingam was executed in Texas in 2004 for allegedly setting a fire that killed his three daughters. Following his execution, further evidence revealed that Willingam did not set the fire that caused their deaths but it came too late.
We can deny that the death penalty makes a public spectacle of an individual’s death. It means executions are often undertaken in an extremely public manner, with public hangings in Iran or live broadcasts of lethal injections in the US. According to UN human rights experts, executions in public serve no legitimate purpose and only increase the cruel, inhuman and degrading nature of this punishment.
Everyone always has the right to live, and we all have the right to be free from cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishment. These are human rights that people have, regardless of whether they have been convicted of crimes. The death penalty violates these basic rights.
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