Thirdly it is justice. Some people say that death penalty is the best punishment if someone kills another person. As Lex Talionis says eye for eye, tooth for tooth. An example of this could be the last president of Iraq Saddam Hussein who was by after being convicted of by the following for the murder of 148 Iraqi in the town of in 1982 in retaliation for an assassination attempt against him. Among the public the death penalty was the best option of punishment for Saddam Hussein.
The last advantage of death penalty is that it is no reoffending. There is a chance that someone who has come out from the prison will kill again, but if someone is put to death penalty he has no chance to do something wrong again.
Despite of these advantages of death penalty there are much more disadvantages found among people. Now I will try to show the main ones of them.
Firstly death penalty is not deterrent. It relate mainly to U.S. and China where there is high rate of murders. Killers are so determined that they would not be afraid about their selves’ lives when they see other killer that has been put to death penalty.
Secondly every smart person knows that it is wrong to kill. I am a catholic who believe and practice the Moses’ Law, namely Ten Commandments. The fifth one says: “You must not kill”. Thus it is against this Law and anyone that lives not according to it would not be allowed to enter the heaven after death. It is of course against the official law to kill anyone and as well as in religious case anyone who breaks this law will be judge.
Another disadvantage is that due to death penalty is a risk of injustice. It means that someone that has been put to death penalty would transpire that they were innocent. After wards it wouldn’t be possible to move back the judgment as it would be with prison’s case. There is one example from the film “Let him have it” where main character was put to death penalty after situation when his friend killed a policeman. Despite the man that I mentioned at first wasn’t guilty, was put to death. Many people were protesting to let him be free. That was the mistake of the judge that he was killed.
The last disadvantage is that there is no chance of rehabilitation. Killer could repent what he has done but he has no chance to show it, as he would be put to death penalty.
To conclude I would like to say that in my opinion the death penalty is very bad punishment and I truly believe it should be abolished in whole world. I think this essay is enough prove that this punishment is very bad. I also hope that I persuaded you to think in the same way. We must ask ourselves, if a member of our family would be killed, would we like the killer to be put to death penalty? We also have to imagine situation, where a member of our family would kill someone. What would we like to be with this member?
