Similarly it will also act as a deterrent so that criminals or even any one will think very hard before they attempt to commit a crime. This will work because as we kill people for doing wrong they will realise that if they do wrong the same could very similarly happen to them if they go and break the law. So due to this the country would be a lot safer place.
Furthermore there is a saying ‘An eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth’ this means that the punishment should fit the crime. So for example if someone brutally murdered someone else the same punishment would have to be given to him or her to see if they like it being done to them. Also if you steal something they would have to give that item back as well as the person that he or she stole it from could take something of theirs.
In addition to all of the points I have stated. Murderers would never be able to re-offend because it is a well known fact that some criminals do get out of prison, and then commit another crime and if you sentenced them to Capital Punishment they would never be able to do this again. So the Police wouldn’t have as much trouble trying to catch the same people over and over again.
Moreover it would be justice to the family of the victim and the victim as well. What I mean by this is that they could see the person get whatever punishment he gets. For example if the criminal was sentenced to stoning the family should therefore be able to throw the first rocks and if he has hurt anybody else in his life they should all be able to throw stones as well. This should really help people get over the loss or hurting that they have had done to them and the family around them.
However on the other hand the people who have been stoning this person have actually killed someone themselves. So this may stay in their mind for the rest of their lives so they may be really haunted by the fact that they too are actually murderers. Therefore may have mental problems and this may make them even kill themselves. So in this paragraph I have shown you one of the reasons why Capital Punishment should stay, as it has for the last 38 years, abolished.
To add to that it would be much better to put them in prison because it will be a lot more painful way to punish them. Because in jail for a long time is a lot harder than a quick death. We know this because such incidents in prisons before where prisoners have tried to kill themselves one way or another have succeeded. They may be able to do this by having such weapon as a knife or they may even hang themselves. So therefore if we do put people in prison they will live a lot harder life than if we gave them Capital Punishment.
Moreover that, the criminals can actually be rehabilitated and actually come out of jail a totally different human being and they may, if they behave well, be released a free man even earlier. He can then go out and earn a living because they have changed due to the hard discipline of prison. If this person were killed it would be a waste of a life that you have just lost for completely no reason at all.
Furthermore another reason and one of the main reasons how do you know that the person is actually guilty? You don’t know for sure that whatever evidence you have picked up and what stories you have gathered from people that they may be lying in order to fix him up and you may take them seriously. For example look at the Bentley case where a teenager was killed for a crime which he has now been pardoned for, but it is too late you can’t do anything about it now.
Similarly to that if someone is wrongly accused you can actually take people out of prison but if you decided to give them Capital Punishment you can’t bring that person back and now they are gone forever. Similarly to the last paragraph also look at the Bentley case again that 19-year-old boy has been discovered not guilty but nothing can be done because they killed him. This is yet another waste of a life. So therefore keep Capital Punishment abolished.
It is also an extremely cruel and barbaric thing to do as said by many people. Like for example in an article it states that ‘Capital Punishment is a form of official revenge no less barbarous than the criminal’s slaughter of his victim’. This is saying that what we would be doing is pure evil and you are stooping down to the murderers level due to the evil killing of the man that you have actually done.
Similarly another point nearly the same, as the other is that the people who actually kills the murderer in Capital Punishment are actually murderers themselves. And they are therefore stooping down to the murderer’s standards and doing something just as brutal as the murderer has done to the victim. It is not right because otherwise surely the person killing the murderer should also be killed due to equal rights and then whoever killed him would then have to die and so on and so forth.
Also Capital Punishment could encourage martyrs who may actually want to do. Therefore they will kill an innocent person so that they can get killed because they may not have that good life that some of us lead. So therefore you have lost two good lives which you didn’t need to do at all and therefore just cruel and inhumane.
Similarly life could become cheap and Capital Punishment could desensitise people. So if they feel they have a very poor life with girlfriend troubles, money troubles or even child troubles that person would automatically think that if they murder someone they will get given Capital Punishment so therefore not have to live the poor life that they have at the moment. And also the family around that person would also feel down because it is partially their fault.
So therefore I conclude this essay by saying that having listened to both sides of the story, my personal opinion is one that I believe is a very good idea. And that is that if someone gets a life sentence they should be put in prison. And at the first sign of them being in trouble and therefore certain that they have committed the crime should be sentenced to one of the harshest ways of dying in fact the worst way to die and that is Capital Punishment.