The death penalty is a sentence that has its roots from the earliest records of human social organization. However, there is no precise historical data regarding its origin in a particular society. Although it has been abolished in many places around the world, the death penalty still exists in many countries, such as China, Afghanistan and United States. In most countries that adopt the death penalty, it has a character to judge heinous crimes such as murder and rape. Although many people defend that the use of the death penalty as a final judgment is a fair way of condemnation and it serve as an example for others may not commit the same crime, in other hand, there are people who see it as a way form of cruel and inhuman punishment and that it is not yet effective in combating crime. Therefore, we should think in the following question: is the death penalty effective to combat crimes or would it be only a cruel and vindictive form of justice that does not work to combat crime?
First, let's analyze the effect that death penalty may have on rate of crimes. There is not worldwide evidence that the death penalty has a special effect regarding crime. Some argue that abolishing the death penalty raises the crime rate, but studies, for example, in the United States and Canada, does not support this belief. In 2011, in the United States, the average homicide rate in states that applying the death penalty was 4.89 per 100,000 inhabitants, compared with 4.13 per 100,000 populations in states that do not applied, totalizing a difference of only 18%. In 2003, in Canada, 27 years after the abolition of the death penalty in this country, the murder rate dropped 44 % since 1975 when the death penalty was still applied. Therefore, what can be s...
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...led each time it is executed, causing distress to the criminal's relatives. In his article, Rob Warden says "That the death penalty has no demonstrable deterrent effect - but has, in fact, caused some murders and, more generally, may contribute to a cycle of violence that raises murder rates." (Warden, 2009).
After all the evidences, we can conclude that the death penalty in addition to not being effective in combating crime, it is nothing but a cruel and inhumane act that violates human rights and can generate even more pain in the society. It is clear that society has the right to feel angry when heinous crimes are committed, after all we are human and we identify with the pain of others, even if they are not someone close to us. However, there are other ways to deal with criminals in order to help them and make them pay for their crimes without take their lives.
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The use of the death penalty in the United States has been a great debate for many years. One of the major aspects of this debate is whether or not we should continue to use this form of punishment for criminals. In my opinion, the death penalty should be abolished because it costs taxpayers much more than sending an inmate to prison and there is no factual evidence that it has any greater deterrent effect than life imprisonment. One major reason that I believe that the death penalty should be abolished
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