Death Penalty

Death Penalty

Problem Statement

The death penalty or capital punishment is the eventual rejection of civil liberties. Considering the significance of the human life, it has been deplored by the literary populace of the civil society. Law enforcing advocacies of the twentieth century are indulged in transformation of the death penalty procedure through community education and support. Criticized all over the globe, death penalty is still a part of the criminal law in some nations. Seeing its existence in the twentieth century, question arises that “Is death penalty a deterrence of severe crimes? Nonetheless, the results revealed that death penalty is not a solution to severe crimes, though, a transparent procedure, non bias verdict and the intensity of the crime is a prerequisite, if the law enforcing authorities wants the capital punishment a part of the law criminology. Hence, compliance with the International Standards following the death penalty is recommended. Eventually the United States' observance with international human rights model will demand nothing less than an entire elimination of the death penalty.

Introduction

Since ages, the death penalty is a sentimental issue which is debated by law professionals around the globe. Death penalty or capital punishment refers to the deliberate killing of a criminal, who has been found guilty of committing a severe crime. The procedure through which the criminal is put to death usually depends on the law and regulations of the country where death sentence is pronounced. Though the punishment has been criticized from every sphere of life, neither there is any precedence given to the specific procedure use for killing the criminals. Death given by electric shocks, injecting lethal in the body, suffocating in gas chamber, stoning, hanging, and beheading are the common procedures for killing criminals pronounced for death penalty.

Discussion

In book Criminal justice system author highlighted the international trend of death penalty, he suggested that it is important to demolish the trend of death penalty, as many courts have not particularly ruled that death penalty is brutal and cruel, it is one of the degraded punishment. Moreover author highlighted that in customary international law abolition is not accepted, which determines that all states are bind regardless of any amendments in treaties. Moreover, Dammer also highlighted the standards of capital punishment that have become customary international law linked with the capital punishment (Dammer, 2006, p. 192). These standards includes that capital punishment should be imposed only for most serious crimes, and it should not be imposed on the juvenile offenders, who are under eighteen, an insane person should not be given capital punishment, lastly capital punishment should not be imposed on new mothers or pregnant women's. In his book Dammer opposed the trend of death penalty; he highlighted that why powerful world nations, such as Japan and United States execute offenders, with the help of history he tried to depict that both nations have a greater history of violence and greater tolerance level for violence, including execution of convinced murderers, finishing the ritualistic functions that depicts the reality of culture ...