It is said that the death penalty fails to rehabilitate. When the perpetrator is put on the death row, nothing is accomplished. Being locked in a cell for twenty-four hours a day isn’t a picnic, yet executing one for a non-existing life is just recapitulating the crime. The distinction between the two punishments is that life without parole in prison keeps one from reoffending and taken into consideration, costs less than the death penalty.
The society's main priority is to use the most preventive punishment that would deter murder: the death penalty. Humanitarian efforts to secure a country are provided with capital punishment. Because of this, murder rates are steady; places with high murder rates would have even increased rates without the death penalty. Vicious killers who are incarcerated don’t cease killing, while if one is dead, it will make a big difference and no more sinless lives will be hurt.
On the other hand, murder is not done by the fear of death. It is committed by the heat of passion. When the murderer kills, it is in a still mode; it is inadequate to think of any severe consequences. In addition, the offender does not expect to be caught and doesn’t think about the difference in death and imprisoning.
In the act of murdering, the offender is still alive, alternatively, the victim is dead and its family is suffering. Since there is no way to make the situation fair by having none of the parties suffer, the alternate is used. The death penalty makes the situation fair by making both parties- victim and killer- suffer; moreover it abolishes the murderer from killing again. As the offender compensates for the crime it then feels empathy for the victim as the perpetrator is put into the same situation as the victim was.
Conversely, by having two lives taken, there is more anguish. If the offender is executed, it will not bring the victim back to life. Instead the murderer should pay blood money, where the money would represent the nihilty of the victim's life. At the same time though, no amount of money is worth one's life; also the victim's family might take advantage by taking revenge from the offender's family. Still, in this action of executing, a closure is given to the victim's family.
Once an offender has been given the death row, nothing can be done to make verifications if there has been a misunderstanding. This becomes an irrevocable and onerous situation; innocent lives are taken to countervail for a crime which they haven’t committed.
On the other hand, safeguards have been added to this system since 1980. Thus the miscarriage of justice is very rare. If the use of evidence is needed then they should be launched. Normally claims of innocence are to rescind the case. This doesn’t give an excuse to allow the moratorium of the death penalty.
In most countries, citizens pay taxes to the government. The money goes through to the criminal justice system as well as benefits for making the country a better place to live in. The cost of interning the perpetrator may be supposed that it is substantially less than performing the death row to one; nonetheless, perhaps, those assumptions are wrong. When the taxpayer's money is going to feed the criminal, the atmosphere is ambivalent. The criminal is the taxpayer's enemy, so then why is the committer being fed by its enemy? If the tax is going for criminals, then it could have rather been given to old, homeless people.
Yet again, paying more once instead of paying little, an ample amount of times, seems logical. When the taxpayer's money goes to the death penalty, the tax is more efficient as the murderer is being killed and disappearing out of the society's life; which obviously leads a decrease in murder.
The Criminal Justice System is spread around the world to control crime and to achieve 3 main objectives: detect crime, support victims and punish more offenders. The CJS works by giving adults (18+) a severe punishment while children (10-17) are warned or reprimand.
I personally think that the death penalty should NOT be abolished because; already there is an ample amount of chaos in our world. For me imagining the consequences is a difficult thing to do. Imprisoning is futile and a waste of time. This process- capital punishment- serves the offender in the perfect way to tell others not to murder.
