Capital Punishment

  Capital punishment is also known as death penalty or execution. It refers to the sentence of death upon a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offence. Capital punishment has in the past been practiced by most societies. Although currently only 58 nations actively practice it, with 95 countries having abolished it. A study by Isaac Ehrlich which found that the murder rate responded to change in the likelihood of execution. He concluded that 7 or 8 murders were prevented by each execution from 1933 to 1967. Crimes that would be punished by capital punishment are murder, burger, act of terrorism, treason and human trafficking. I support capital punishment because of retribution, incapacitation and deterrence.

  First and foremost, retribution is an act of punishment or taking vengeance for wrong doing, sin or injury. The purpose of retribution is actively to injure criminal offenders, ideally in proportion with their injuries to society and so expiate them of guilty. Retribution states that real justice requires people to suffer for their wrongdoing and to suffer in a way appropriate for the crime. Each criminal should get what crime deserves and in the case of a murderer what their crime deserves is death. Friends or family of the victims feels that a wrong has been committed and demands “equal” suffering to “repay” that wrong. Retribution has its basis in religions values, which have historically maintained that it is proper to take “an eye for an eye” and a life for a life.

  Besides, incapacitation is an argument for capital punishment. Incapacitation refers to the effect of a sentence in term of positively preventing future offending. It takes away a person’s freedom so that he or she cannot commit another crime.  Incapacitation permanently removes the worst criminal from society and should prove much safer for the rest of us than long term or permanent incarceration. It is self evident that dead criminal cannot commit any further crimes.

  Furthermore, deterrence is the notion that by administering punishment to offenders. It can cause fear in both the offenders and others so that they will not want to commit crimes in the future. According to the argument, the presence of the death penalty ought to reduce a wide variety of criminal acts. The death penalty is much more likely to be a deterrent where the crime requires planning and the potential criminal has time to think about the consequences. When the crime is committed there is no likelihood that any punishment will act as a deterrent.

  In conclusion, I strongly support capital punishment because of the above reason. However, we must have strong evidence to tell that the person have done the criminal. Without verification we cannot prove that the person is wrong or right. Someone maybe is an innocent people.