Reflection On Alternatives To Capital Punishment

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The death penalty should be prohibited for many reasons. There are some advantages and disadvantages in both options but, from my point of view, it is always better don´t use this penalty. In the following paragraphs I will provide some evidences in order to support my opinion. We mentioned above, there were two rationales for this argument. On the one hand, des from a religious point of view is the retaliation of the order of nature and instinct (...) If the crime is part of human nature, the law is not intended to imitate or reproduce this nature is made to correct secondly fit confronting other religious dogmatic considerations, such as love of neighbor, forgiveness, among others. However, such dogmatic religious considerations are not sufficient to clarify the issue of the death penalty. It would be necessary to apply to the data provided to us social sciences (criminology, sociology, psychology, etc ...). (VILASANJUAN, 2015) The Social Utility not shown, that the penalty fulfills a function of negative general prevention, or intimidating to potential offenders. Proof of …show more content…

However, we feel that we conclude this paper with a brief personal reflection on alternatives to capital punishment. It is evident that the clearest alternative presented is the prison. This is so, since the capital punishment in theory should be applied to the most serious crimes. Therefore, alternatives posed Penal abolitionists, such as raising certain crimes civilian, law is not possible for offenses which correspond to the capital punishment. I believe that the abolition of capital punishment is necessary, but yet not believe that prison is a real alternative. The alternative is in force in some countries is life imprisonment, with which they still have the same problems with the sanction capital, since it does not respect many of the rights of certain subjects, nor reconciler

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