Crime And Punishment

Crime and Punishment

Ever since the beginning of modern society, crime and punishment have

been linked together. Depend on the seriousness of the crime, those who break

the laws are punished accordingly. As the amount of homicide increased in the

passed several years, people are demanding tougher punishments for more murder.

Among them, the most supported one was the reapplying of execution as a mean of

punishment. This notion could help decrease the number of killing, however it

also raised many concerns. In order for execution to be reinstated as a

punishment for murder, questions such as the morality of executing criminals and

the possibility of killing a innocence person must be answered.

One concern of executing murderers is the morality of the act. First of

all, killing of any kind is wrong. As outlined by laws and guaranteed by the

Canada Charter of Human Right, every human is entitle to live. And under no

circumstances do anyone else have the right to someone else live away.

Extinguishing the life of the murderer is equivalent to murderers killing their

victim. If it is illegal for murderers kill, how is it possible for government

to be justify to end the lives of the murderers.

Another concern of executing murderers is the possibility of killing an

innocence person. With our improving technology, what we now believe is beyond

reasonable doubt might a verdict filled with errors in the future. One very good

example of this is the recent acquitting of a man jailed for raped and the

murder of a girl. If he was executed at the time, he would of never had the

chance to prove his innocence with the D.N.A. tests. He as an innocence man

would have been killed.

Legalizing execution for the punishing of murderers is a very important

decision for Canadians to make. The result of the decision will decide of