I believe that capital punishment should be banned throughout the world.

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Can capital punishment ever be justified?

Capital punishment is not a proven deterrent to future criminals.

The capital punishment does not prevent society from further crimes by murderers in any significant way. People diagnosed with mental illness would see death as the only route to freedom, it provides the murderers an escape from the mental anguish. Once in prison, those serving life sentences will eventually adjust into a routine, and are to a lesser degree risk to perpetrate violence than other detainees. In addition, most states now have a sentence without parole. Detainees who are given this sentence will never be set free. In this way, the safety of society can be guaranteed rather than with capital punishment.

It has a brutalizing effect, capital punishment is inhumane on society. The brutalization impact is that executions desensitize the public to the immorality of killing, which creates more corruption and homicide. Capital punishment makes society more risky by additionally expanding violence through the brutalization impact, increasing the likelihood that people will then choose to kill.

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Capital punishment is inhumane. People feel if the government can kill its enemies, so can they, it creates an imitation effect. Killing individuals influences us to be in the same position as killers, which a majority of us disdain. It's sufficiently abominable that we are victimized by homicide in our community; so why do we kill people, who kill people to show that killing people is wrong?

The retribution for victims families. It is a miserable remembrance of how our justice system ordinarily offers discipline as opposed to emotionally supporting for the victims. Capital punishment likewise keeps us in a furious phase of sorrow. It is not a rational act whatsoever to kill the individual who has killed someone close to you. It is a continuous cycle of violence.

There is a reason why most of the European countries have banned the usage of death as punishment, it’s cruel, uncivilised and black-hearted! It condemns the poor and innocent people to die. They spent life in prison for violations they didn't do. Guiltless individuals were tied into an electric chair and injected with dangerous drugs, all this for crimes they did not commit.

Capital punishment method is more expensive than life in prison, the money saved from executions could go to families of the victim, and it is more logic to spend tax money on other needs such as health care and education, one major reason due to the huge cost is the attorney pay, the lawyer's salary are high, therefore using more time on a case leads to more expenses.

Capital punishment does not deter homicide, it is a cruel and cold blooded form of punishment. There have been cases where innocent individuals were sentenced to death and later observed to be innocent. It is my judgment that the capital punishment is a bad policy, it has no place in the modern world and everyone should oppose this and advocate its abolition once and for all!