Amandeep Kaur Steve KingResearch Essay Title : Abolition of Capital punishment April 6th 2018 Capital Punishment is planned taking of a human life by the government in response to a crime committed by that legally convicted person. Killing is a violent act, no matter how it is done, and no matter who carries it out. The idea of putting another human to death is hard to completely fathom. It violates the right to life.
it is cold-blooded killing of humans in the name of justice. There can never be any justification in killing a person on behalf of taking a life of a person. Arguing against capital punishment, Amnesty International believes that “The death penalty is the ultimate denial of human rights. It is the premeditated and cold-blooded killing of a human being by the state in the name of justice.” there have been many controversies on this topic of capital punishment and its role within the society. About 80 countries abolished death penalty.
Everyone has the right to live. It is valuable gift. Killing a person is immoral. Removing all outstanding circumstances, it is nothing more than a legalized murder. Mahatma Gandhi said that eye for an eye will make the whole world blind. It only gives rise to violence in the society. Our society always teaches us that violence is not a way to solve any problem. If a society punishes a murderer for murdering a person, what will it teach to the next generation? According to Illinois Coalition to Abolition the Death Penalty states, “We don’t cut off the hands of thieves to protect property; we do not stone adulterers to stop adultery.
We consider that barbaric. Yet we continue to take life as a means of protecting life.” No one has the right to decide if another human is worthy or unworthy of life. Death penalty only makes life unworthy. It is difficult to brought back the life of a person who was killed by taking the life of a murderer so, it is bad idea to kill someone for killing a person.Humans makes mistakes and no justice system in the world is 100% correct. It is possible to make mistakes. It might results in the execution of a innocent.
It is irreversible process unlike, other criminal punishments and does not provide a chance to correct mistakes. Tl than to maintain him or her in prison for life without parole. It is not favourable for the people and the government to execute a person.here are number of evidences in the modern era to show that innocent people were convicted for crimes.
The story of Carlos DeLuna, a man executed in Texas in 1989 for a murder which he didn’t committed proved that it is possible to commit mistakes while providing justice. In the case of DeLuna, there were no evidences like DNA evidence and no crime scene fingerprints. He was executed on the basis of eyewitness testimony made from the back of a police car in a dimly lit lot near the crime scene (Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 2012).Death penalty not only harms the criminal but also the state. It is a waste of money to put someone on death sentence. It costs more to execute criminals than to imprison them.
The Supreme Court insists that the awesome finality of the death penalty requires a “corresponding greater degree of scrutiny of the capital sentencing determination” (Ramos,1983). As the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California (1992) explains, the possibility of the death penalty raises the costs at every stage: “A capital case requires two trials (one to determine guilt and another to determine penalty), automatic state supreme court review, post-conviction proceedings, and Supreme Court appeals, all of which are extremely costly to the state both in terms of money and human resources.” According to Ibid, in the 1980s, the state of Florida spent six times more per person to execute a criminal.
