Everyone has an indefeasible human right to live, even for those who commitfelonies. According to the facts about the death penalty from Death Penalty Information Centre in USA, there are 15 states without death penalties while the rest of the states are still carrying out death penalties and there are 1226 defendants that had already been performed capital punishments from 1977 to 2010. But, no matter whom we are and what reasons we have, we do not have the right to take away someone’s life. According to the Human Rights Act 1998article 2 – Right To Life, everyone thathas the right to life shall be protected by law, no one shall be deprived of his life intentionallyin the execution of a sentence of a court following his conviction of a crime for which this penalty is provided by law and also, deprivation of life shall not be regarded as inflicted in contravention of this article when it results from the use of force which is no more than absolutely necessary .From this article, we can see that the law is protecting human lives. Taking the life of a human is also nowhere economically efficient as it involves discounting the resources that has been put into rearing his life. It is so valuable, even the worst criminals should not be given death as punishments. Capital Punishment should be abolished because of human rights and retribution.
Human got the right to choose when are they going to end their own life. The value of life is priceless, this is because everyone’s life is given by their parents and everymother gives birth to her children after nearly ten months of pregnancy. If a defendant has to be executed with capital punishment, it is not only to execute the defendant; it would also break his/her mother’s heart. A child is important to every mother;she were trying so hard to keep her baby alive and healthy before and after giving birth, but due to her child being a murderer the law wants to execute her child, what do you think the mother might do? She might become psychoticor face deep depression, or waste their resources by trying every method to save their child’s life. Capital punishment may not only punish the criminal, but also their relatives too. What if your own child is going to be executed by law? What would you do?
Retribution is a punishment given to a person that fully deserved it. I believe that a person who committed felony should be given retribution that death is unable to fulfill. Murderers should get retributions by other means.It is because people that performed serious crimes should suffer far greater than the punishment of death. The fear of death may not be powerful enough to discourage potential criminals to avoid them. Therefore heavily painful punishments should be given, to a certain point where the criminals would demands for death instead. This action would effective deter a greater number of the population from performing felonies. Punishment by death also may also mean that many of them would escape from most of the aftermath of their crimes. The damage that they had done has to be repaid as well through further community work.
It has come to a time where death may not be enough to for retributions.The act of punishment by severe pain would give criminals family some relief, but instead it is worse than death itself to the criminals that were punished. As it is far greater than death, it should be effective in deterring future felonies while maintaining their lives in order for them to repay their debt to society. Death penalties are simply too light and are also economically inefficient. They are also against human rights (subjective or not).Therefore capital punishment should be abolished.
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