Essay On Death Penalty In Australia

Death Penalty

The death penalty was a law that used to be in Australia the law was if you committed a bad enough you would be executed for your crime committed.

The last person to be executed in Australia was 2 February 1967 when Ronald Ryan was hung in Melbourne for shooting a prison guard during an escape attempt. Queensland was the first to abolish the death penalty in 1922 and NSW was the last in 1985. The social cohesion in the death penalty is the public were against the death penalty and the social progression is that we have moved forward to get rid of a law that is old fashion

The arguments for the death penalty is that it gives closure to the victim's families who have suffered so much. Justice is better served with the death penalty. The modern DNA tests can prove if the suspect is guilty or innocent. If the prisoner escapes or goes on a parole it gives them anther chance to kill.

The arguments opposing the change to the law are that mentally ill people will people will be sentenced to death. Some jury members are reluctant to convict if it means putting someone to death. The prisoners family has to suffer watching there loved one put to death. Innocent men and women may be put to death. A criminal that deserved to be put to death could a really good lawyer to get them out of it whereas some with a

Criminals with good lawyers might not get the death penalty when they might deserve it. I think it is hard to which types of crime to put the death penalty on like the group that tried smuggling drugs out of bali got sentence to death which crimes would be death sentence if you murder someone or if you were to smuggle drugs that is a lot of the reason why I think they shouldn’t bring the death penalty to Australia. People that have mental illness that need help will get sentence to