should the death penalty be abolished?
should the death penalty be abolished?
Updated on March 23, 2022 in
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No. The largest benefit of capital punishment is that it’s use can be used as a means gaining cooperation with known murderers. For example, if law enforcement has used forensics and other means of proof that a person has raped and killed people… they can use the threat of death as a way to get to an offender to admit what they did, admit to other murders, show the location of the victim remains, etc. When an innocent person has been murdered, their family is horrified, stunned and permanently harmed as well. Sometimes closure is the best help for them and the community at large. If someone admits their guilt, helps police find the remains for a decent burial, and goes to prison, everyone gets closure. Basically, it’s a way to stop a sociopath from playing games with everyone’s hearts and minds and let everyone begin to heal. Finally, capital punishment can be a deterrent for disgusting people and just enough to make them reconsider violence and abuse of innocents.
Also, I believe the immediate family of the victim should always have a say in the choice to seek out the death penalty. As sad as it is, I firmly believe in the idea that people can not only forfeit their right to live amongst normal citizens, they can forfeit their right to live at all.
i agree although i believe some people put up for death row just need some rehabilitation rather than just to be put to death.
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Yes, it should be abolished, especially in countries like America which pellucidly state that they are for human rights, but then use capital punishment to control the lives of humans. The entire existence of democracy is to protect and preserve the “constitution given rights” of citizens and legal immigrants, then how is it that a mistake can suddenly allow a government or a group of government officials who are also people to take the life of another human under the fallacy of legality?
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Absolutely not. The death penalty brings justice to our society. Its eye for an eye mentality is exactly what we need.
So are you implying that the government has the right to choose who gets to live or not? The government is also a group of humans, the majority of which are corrupt, and are you attempting to tell me then, that you believe just for revenge some people can take the life of one person. Humans are suscept to error and how they are the very same humans who make a multitude of mistakes, suddenly allowed to control who gets to live or not? Did you know that between 2% and 10% of convicted individuals in US prisons are innocent? Essentially saying that about 10% of the people on death row never actually committed the crime. So innocent people are simply dying because they couldn’t afford or were not able to protect their lives? With incarceration, once a person is proven innocent, they are released. When a dead person is proven innocent, how exactly can you release them? You can never be absolutely sure of something so are you willing to kill a person’s life on a theory? An eye-for-an-eye mentality is also the complete opposite of what our government needs. Basically, this is promoting legal killings of people under the false presence of justice. The government exists to protect people from threats and to punish those that break this “contract”, however, how does the government get to decide who gets to live and who doesn’t? Why does the government have the right to choose if one man gets the right to life or to do?
You based your argument under the pretense that the government decides who dies as if they are omnipotent. The death penalty is left to state matters, not federal, so no one government can decide this. The death penalty acts as a deterrent and it reduces overcrowding in prisons. Conditions are so bad in prisons that the death penalty is often merciful. The governments do not just “choose,” the death penalty is used based on the justice system and laws, not officials’ personal choices.
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