Capital punishment in Australia has been abolished nationwide since 1985. Western Australia was the last state to put an end to capital punishment. Capital punishment is the sentencing that involves death. There are many that think capital punishment is bad and ethically wrong, and there are also many that think it is legitimate. I think that capital punishment is not moral in most cases.
Capital punishment was abolished in Australia and many other countries because it was thought to be morally incorrect. Also because they came to the conclusion that it gives no one the right to take another’s life.
Although now the latest technologies offer us with quick and painless ways of executing people, before these inventions executions were performed in painful ways e.g. the electric ch
air. This factor adds to the notion that capital punishment is unethical.
One big factor that perhaps led the abolishment of capital punishment in many countries was a case where a man was sentenced to death with a “proper” trial and years after the execution, he was found not guilty. This issue shook the world. It sparked the revolution of judges not being able to make decisions as freely and juries having greater power. Many leaders of nations gathered to discuss the issue and many agreed to the abolishment of capital punishment.
Capital punishment is still being supported in many countries and many people still think it is a part of life. Capital punishment has been around for many years in many forms and often it was part of our everyday life. Some people think that the
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