Capital punishment or the death penalty is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. The judicial decree that someone be punished in this manner is a death sentence, while the actual enforcement is an execution. The manner of execution is different from one country to the next, but in all cases, the end result is the same. Death penalty is actually a part of criminal law. Worldwide there are arguments for or against death penalty. Both the arguments have their own justification.
I agree that capital punishment protects the public and discourages crime because the death penalty prevents future murders. Society has always used punishment to discourage would be criminals from unlawful action. Since society has the highest interest in preventing murder, it should use the strongest punishment available to deter murder and that is the death penalty. If murderers are sentenced to death and executed, potential murderers will think twice before killing for fear of losing their own life.
Furthermore, a just society requires the death penalty for the taking of a life. When someone takes a life, the balance of justice is disturbed. Unless that balance is restored, society succumbs to a rule of violence. Only the taking of the murderer’s life restores the balance and allows society to show convincingly that murder is an intolerable crime which will be punished in kind. Retribution has its basis in religious values, which have historically maintained that it is proper to take an ‘eye for an eye’ and a life for a life. Offenders deserve the worst punishment under our system of law and that is the death penalty.
Besides that, the death penalty can provide a deterrent against violent crime. When many criminologists define deterrence in terms of the death penalty, they are looking at how the presence of this sentencing can stop violent acts by preventing someone to commit them in the first place. It becomes a value proposition. Capital punishment creates an irreversible deterrent that the murderer will never get the chance to take a life again. It is a form of incapacitation that helps to protect society by preventing future crime in this matter.
Next, it doesn’t need to be carried out with brutatily. At various points in history, the death penalty was carried out by beheading, stoning, crucifixion, electrocution, shooting or hanging will scare the criminals and preventing future crime.
Finally, it eliminates the possibility of an escape and future victims. When there is a life in prison sentence, then an individual has nothing to lose with their effort to escape. What can the criminal justice system do to that person except add more time to their life sentence ? By using capital punishment this threat disappears which means there will be no future victims either.
In conclusion, these are only some among the many advantages provided by the propenets of the death penalty law. Death penalty help to curtail future murderers thus, can save more lives, more inocent lives. That there’s God who will judge each one on Earth with fairness and equality. If we are only God fearing and morally upright, responsible enough to know consequences of our actions, no penalty of any sort is necessary.
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