Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment

Introduction

The death penalty, capital punishment is execution or cause death to a person sentenced by the State , as punishment for a crime established in the law , the crime for which this penalty is applied generally known as' capital offenses. "

The death of criminals and political dissidents has been used by some companies in a time of history, both to punish crime and to suppress dissent politics. It is currently the death penalty has been abolished and penalized in virtually all countries Europe (except Belarus), and most of those for Oceania (such as Australia, New Zealand and East Timor). Most countries in Latin America have abolished the death penalty, while in countries like the United States, Guatemala and most states of the Caribbean is still applied. In Asia the death penalty is allowed in democracies such as Japan and India. In Africa, capital punishment is still used in Botswana and Zambia.

Arguments against Capital Punishment

The death penalty as part of a punitive system has been questioned since the eighteenth century, when the embryo emerged abolitionist movement, with the publication of the book On Crimes and penalties, in 1764, from Cesare Beccaria. In 1946, the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations created the Human Rights Commission, which should produce a catalog of human rights and international mechanisms for protection. The first document created in this regard was adopted on December 10, 1948 under the name of Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states in Article 3: "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person." Currently, international organizations such as Amnesty International, World Coalition against the Death Penalty and Hands off Cain have prioritized the abolition of the death penalty in countries still exert retentionist, one of its initiatives is set as "World Day Against the Death Penalty (Williams, 2000)."

The Catholic Church also condemns the death penalty considering that "human life is a sacred gift from God and that man ... cannot claim the right to remove it." Similar reasons are the Anglican Church and the Methodist Church, like other Protestant churches, to secure the same position. Some economic and political organizations, like the European Union or the Council of Europe, have a requirement to belong to them, the abolition of the death penalty or a moratorium, as the case of Russia.

Capital punishment runs the risk of irrevocable error. The application of the measure ...