The Pros And Cons Of Capital Punishment

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, “capital punishment refers to the process of sentencing convicted offenders to death for the most serious crimes and carrying out that sentence.” The punishment is decided by the judge or the government itself depending on how serious the crime is however, some countries carry out capital punishments for trivial things such as chewing gum in Singapore or false accusations of the leader and the government in North Korea. According to a table made by Amnesty International, China has the most people who died by capital punishment and Libya has the least with only thirty-nine in terms of people executed. This graph was only conducted in the year 2007 all the way to 2012. In the United States alone,

There have been solutions that have surfaced around the topic of capital punishment. One is to completely leave it out to the executioner themselves. To completely go in depth, the executioner has the absolute power of what to do with the the convicted without the judge specifying if it’s a lethal injection or through electrocution or hanging. The executioner will see what is the best fit for the crime or crimes that the condemned has done. Another, according to The Ethical Spectacle, is that the “survivor of the victim” should have a choice of what the punishment may be for the convicted as a way to bring them some closure and a way to enact “revenge” for the death of the victim. Either of these solutions are completely out of reach for government intervention. Another solution that is widely agreed upon is to completely stop the enactment of capital punishment alone. The reason for this solution is because taxpayers are paying for this and completely agree that the government, along with the military, are spending way too much to keep this sort of “tradition” of punishing criminals alive. Another argument for completely eradicating the idea of capital punishment is to cater to the mentally ill prisoners who are serving the death penalty as stated by Delta University student Alisha