CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Capital Punishment for Juvenile Offenders

Capital Punishment for Juvenile Offenders

Introduction

The capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the killing of a person ordered by a court following a conviction. There are countries where an individual expects the capital punishment for crimes considered serious, like murder and treason, while others, where you can feel the capital punishment only for murder, but also for the execution of other violent crimes, such as robbery and / or rape, to which the crimes of opinion apostasy or linked to drug trafficking (Willing, 2007).

The capital punishment, initially an extension of war, or revenge legalized, was present in all systems of old. The Roman law, for example, provided for the capital punishment, but for the Roman citizens granted an unusual guarantee: a death sentence issued on the basis of “emporium” the magistrate could not be done without giving the offender the right to appeal through the institution of provocation to appeal to the people.

Discussion

Today more than ever we talk about the death penalty as a punishment to be imposed as a punishment or to delete. Some argue that the Capital punishment is necessary, because only valid deterrent to crime, the death penalty can prevent crimes, can uproot murderers, and can save lives (Hood, 2006). Since, from the application of punishment by one, the other criminals would know what the future hold for them if they continue with such heinous acts, and may well lose the life subject to the authority. According to them, it is a way for a murderer or would-be murderer in any society to have the opportunity to reconsider their actions and create a reason for what lies in their actions. Others argue that the capital punishment has no influence on the type of crime rate, since it applies to countries where crime has not diminished, even in some cases even increased. I think the capital punishment a punishment unnecessary, a sentence that not only go against the fundamental right of our existence, the right to life, affecting a number of provisions of international regulations approved also by the countries that systematically apply the capital punishment as a punishment "ordinary". We analyze this aspect just below the capital punishment (Gold, 2007).

On the contrary, some criminologists are of the opinion that the deterrent effect of punishment in itself - one of several factors, which causes a person to indulge in crime and failure, it can help us reduce crime substantially. It should also pay attention to the fact that those criminals, who seek to convey a lot of planning the crime, will never be called a threat of seizure or arrest. Such would be the case when it comes to crimes of mentally damaged people or children, for whom the death penalty rarely acts as a deterrent. By the time the execution takes place, only a few people (mostly family members of the victim and perpetrator) monitor test. As time precedes the deterrent effect a sentence of man in catastrophic reduction runs ...