- Feelings of criminals & their families
- Physical painful of the death
(P4) Topic sentence: Finally, it should be always kept in mind that Capital punishment is completely irreversible, and there is possibility of error made to the innocent people.
- Innocent people killed (past & future)
- Nothing can be done if a mistake is made.
Counter Argument (P5): Capital punishment acts as a deterrent, hence prevents future murder and ensures
the safety of our society.
Rebuttal: However
- not acting as a deterrence
- life imprisonment without parole
Conclusion:
Concluding statement: Overall, it is not worth taking other people’s life as punishments just because they have done something wrong. There should be a global ban on capital punishment because of its barbarity and inhumanity.
Capital punishment is barbaric and inhumane and should be banned globally
Capital punishment is the lawful infliction of death as a punishment for a wide variety of offences, which has been abolished in some countries. However, there are still a number of countries retaining the death penalty. It is clear that death penalty should be banned globally as it is a punishment of barbarity, inhumanity and it is completely irreversible.
Firstly, capital punishment is barbaric as it removes the chance of rehabilitation of the criminals. There are no second chances for the criminals who did feel guilty, and changed in the prison. Also, once the person dies, he could never make any contributions to our society. Sean, killed his mother and stepfather, was put in jail for 13 years before be given a lethal injection. Sean changed and became a Christian during 13 years in prison, he was also teaching the young not to be Satanism as what he was before. Sean had changed and given contribution to our society, however, he was eventually executed. (“From dead kid waking”).
Secondly, Death penalty is an inhumane punishment, because criminals and their families are real people too, and there is no humane method of putting a person to death. The fact that criminals and his families are real people is the thing that is always overlooked, they have life and with it the capacity to feel pain, fear and the loss of their loved ones and all the other emotions that we are capable of feelings. The physical pain of the unnatural death is also suffered by the criminal as every form of execution causes different degree of pain.
Finally, it should be always kept in mind that Capital punishment is completely irreversible, and there is possibility of error made to innocent people. In 1950s, in England, Timothy Evans was hanged after being found to be innocent. However, he was dead, and never coming back to alive. We cannot say that there would not be any errors made to innocent people in the future. Furthermore, nothing can be done to remedy such a tragic situation if an executed prisoner is later found to be innocent.
Capital punishment acts as a deterrent, hence prevents future murder and ensures the safety of our society. However, some criminologists such as William Bowers of Northeastern University, using the capital punishment has the opposite effect as society is brutalized by the use of death penalty, increasing the potential of more murder. There is no conclusive proof that death penalty acts a better deterrent than the threat of life imprisonment without parole, which means prisons who are given this sentence will never be released. Therefore, the safety of society can be assured without using death penalty.
Overall, it is not worth taking other people’s life as punishments just because they have done something wrong. There should be a ban on capital punishment because of its barbarity and inhumanity.
