DEATH PENALTY

A Tougher Death Penalty Will Reduce Crime

A Tougher Death Penalty Will Reduce Crime

Capital punishment or the death penalty is an execution authorized by the government to prosecute a criminal who was involved in violent crimes. Since the first European settlers arrived in America, the death penalty has been accepted to punish a variety of offenses. The English Penal Code listed fourteen capital offenses such as idolatry, blasphemy, rape, kidnapping, murder, assault in sudden anger… (Baird, Punishment and the Death Penalty, 103) There are five types of execution: hanging, electronic chair, firing squad, poisoning gas, and lethal injection. The first recorded execution in the US was performed in Virginia in 1608. In 1845, the American for the Abolition of Capital Punishment was established. In 1846, the death penalty method was replaced with life imprisonment. (Baird, 104) A sign of hope is the increasing recognition that the dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who has done great evil. Modern humanity has the means of defending itself, without definitively denying lawless persons the possibility to reform. I improve the apply I made most lately at Christmas for a agreement to end the death punishment, which is both fiendish and unnecessary. (qut. Statement by the Holy Father on the Death Penalty)

Laws are established to serve people. A lot of proponents believe that the purpose of capital punishment is to help reduce crime in our society. However, there is evidence proving that the capital punishment does not help reduce crimes. Consider the world wide murder rates in table one, the result shows that although capital punishment is practiced in the United States, the murder rates are still so high with 5.64 per 100,000 populations. On the other hand, in many industrial countries without the death penalty, the murder rates are quite different such as 1.81 in Australia, 1.71 in France, 1.01 in Austria and 1.17 in Germany. (Chart/ Homicide World Wild Murder Rate Many Nations) According to Death Penalty Information Center in Washington DC, a survey found that 84% of experts who study about crime and criminals reject the idea that capital punishment can stop criminals from committing murder.

Moreover, in table two, when many Police Chiefs were asked about the most important ways which they should focus on to reduce violent crime, they gave the death penalty solution the lowest score compared with other results ...