Rehabilitation, Not Capital Punishment
The death penalty is the punishment used in 38 states, and many
other countries, as a way of disposing the people in society who are
mentally or emotionally disturbed, love their families very much, have a
bad temper, or just plain made a mistake. These reasons account for many
homicides that take place each year. Capitol Punishment is just not humane
and should not be legal.
The argument most often used to support the death penalty in
former-Soviet republics is the necessity of having a particularly
efficacious deterrent against murders and other common crimes. However,
none of the many studies about the matter have been able to show that death
penalty is more of a deterrent than other punishments. It's completely
wrong to think that most of those who commit serious crimes such as murders
consider the consequences of their actions. Murders are often committed
when the criminal is blinded with passion, when emotions prevail over
reason. They are sometimes committed under the influence of drugs or
alcohol, or in panic moments, when the culprit is discovered while he
steals, as I mentioned already. Some murderers have very serious
psychiatric problems or are mental patients. In none of these cases is it
possible that the fear to be sentenced to death could act as an effective
deterrent.
There is another heavy limit. One who plans a crime rationally can
choose to go on, although he knows the risk he's running, thinking that he
won't be discovered. Most of the criminologists assert that the best way to
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...cases. There was many times in
my own childhood where I took the last cupcake, or spilled my milk. Not
all of these times was I held accountable for my misdeed. The younger
brother usually received the punishment that I deserved. This can also
happen with murder, only death is permanent and "time out" is not. What do
we say to the families of the innocently punished when such evidence comes
forward to prove that their loved one was wrongly executed? There is
nothing we can do or say to excuse ourselves.
In conclusion, the death penalty is not right because it does not
serve the purposes that it is intended to serve. I have proved that it is
not an effective deterrent, but it also removes people from the world who
can be rehabilitated in a proper institution.
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