Leslie Aller Boehler

3rd year of English

Essay on “Capital Punishment

In my opinion “Capital Punishment” is a very serious action which people cannot ask for in such a lightly way. It implies the murder of someone in the name of justice, but what kind of justice is that? Certainly not one I would ever want to have in Argentina.  

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A couple of months ago the question about the need for harder actions against criminals brought up this subject of the death penalty into our minds.  

The thing is that criminals in Argentina are different from the ones in other parts of the world. Here there are a lot of murders committed by poor and intoxicated people, alienated from the society in such a way, that they feel they do not have another alternative from stealing to make a living. This type of criminal is different from a serial killer.

Any punishment must be fair, just, ...

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