Should the death penalty be introduced?

The death penalty should be introduced because then there will be more room for prison spaces. Prison cells are quickly filling up and soon there won’t be any more room. In which case they will probably let out some prisoners early, so then they will probably commit the same kind of crime. It will just be like a cycle. If it is introduced then there will be space for the new comers and the people who are already in prison can serve their sentence. All guilty people deserve to be punished. Also if they get executed then they won’t be able to commit further crimes ever again.  Some people deserve it because they have taken someone’s life or have committed very serious crimes. It is a good way to punish people who have committed bad crimes. It does justice and they won’t get a chance of being released early if they are good or leave because of medical reasons.  

The death penalty should be abolished because more than 90 countries have now outlawed the death penalty altogether, and more than two thirds of all states have abolished it either in law or in practice. It also costs more than life imprisonment. A 1982 New York study showed that the cost of litigating a capital case is $1.8 million; the cost of 40 years of life in prison is $602,000. The most common argument against capital punishment is that sooner or later, innocent people will get killed, because of mistakes or flaws in the justice system. Witnesses, (where they are part of the process), prosecutors and jurors can all make mistakes. When this is coupled with flaws in the system it is inevitable that innocent people will be convicted of crimes. Where capital punishment is used such mistakes cannot be put right. Everyone has an inalienable human right to life, even those who commit murder; sentencing a person to death and executing them violates that right. The death penalty doesn't seem to deter people from committing serious violent crimes. The thing that deters is the likelihood of being caught and punished. The general consensus among social scientists is that the deterrent effect of the death penalty is at best unproven. Public opinion supports alternatives to the death penalty. When offered a range of sentencing options, respondents in public opinion polls have consistently shown a preference for imprisonment rather than execution. The World Coalition against the Death Penalty was created in Rome in 2002, and 10th October 2006 was World Day against the Death Penalty. The death penalty is not always the worst way of punishing people because it is a quick death; they feel something for 10 seconds, while if you put them in prison they will feel the pain for many years to come and maybe reflect what they have done.

From what I have written I believe that the death penalty shouldn’t be introduced. So many people disagree with bringing back the punishment and it shows that human value is still high. There are so many facts and figures that agree to not having the punishment. Only a few countries have it so that shows millions of people agree to it which is a good thing. A lot of religious views go with that way, to saying that the death penalty isn't always the right way. The death penalty is not the right way to punish people.