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Australia is the world’s driest continent, and drought and bushfires are regular occurrences that, sadly, are a natural part of Australia’s weather cycle. Australia has a history of severe bushfires. Such tragedies as the Ash Wednesday fires of February 1983 (71 deaths in Victoria and South Australia), the Tasmanian fires of February 1967 (62 lives, more than 1400 houses and buildings lost) and the New South Wales bushfires of 1994, place bushfires high on the list of Australia’s natural disasters. But for now let’s look at the huge bushfire occurred in 16th February 1983 (Ash Wednesday Bushfires).
             It was April 1982 to January 1983 in Victoria; the weather condition through these days was severe drought conditions and little rainfall, resulting in its driest period on record. A combination of dry grasslands and forests, very hot temperatures, low humidity and high wind gusts presented Victoria with a high bushfire risk. The temperature was 43 degrees Celsius on Ash Wednesday (16 February 1983), which caused huge bushfires that damaged/destroyed 2545 Building/house and huge amount of trees throughout the regions in Victoria.
             Also lots of lives got lost from fire. 75 (15 lives lost from firefighter) in total lives from fires, (47 lives in Victoria and 28 in South Australia) and there were hundreds of people injured due to their skin burnt.
             There were many other causes for fires including, clashing of electric power lines, tree branches connecting with power lines, fires being deliberately lit, and of course the weather. The fire started in Victoria at Cudgee and Branxholme and then the fire also started around Mount Macedon, Dandenong Range Cockatoo, Upper Beaconsfield and Belgrave Heights, Monivae, Branxholme, Warburton and in the Otways. The Fires were so big that it also spread around South Australia through Adelaide Hills and in farming country in the south east of the state.

A chinese professors across the globe are becoming increasingly vocal about the handaling of the coronavirus outbreak. Yuen Kwok – Yung, a world-renowned microbiologist, became the first expert to call the Hong Kong situation a “community outbreak” and warned that the city could become the “next Wuhan”. He told that Time Higher Education that he was driven by his conscience and concern for public well- being. When control measures or public response do not go according to scientific evidence, we as a public should speak out.

Other than that, Mr Jeremy Lim, a partner at global consultancy firm Oliver Wyman’s health and life sciences practice, said that more developed nations tend to have better detection and reporting of cases, more “sophisticated” contact tracing, and a wider availability of test kits. It gave people “very concrete actions” that handed back measure of control to people whose sense of control will feel threatened.

Besides that, Chief Executive has also backed down from a plan to offer free treatment in the city to mainlanders and anyone else needing hospitalisation because of the coronavirus. They also giving a face mask for free to everyone to safe as much as can. There are thousands of medical workers went on strike in the city last week to demand a complete ban on entries from mainland China, worried that hospitals would be overwhelmed by new cases as mainland Chinese sought to use Hong Kong’s healthcare system. There have also been protests against the use of certain housing estates as potential quarantine facilities. Various moves by the government in relation to the coronavirus have also exacerbated the situation.

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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