Many people feel there is nothing wrong with a convicted murderer to receive the death penalty. Society is made to believe, if you do the crime, then you deserve the proper punishment. I on the other hand strongly disagree. Opposition to the death penalty does not arise from sympathy for convicted murderers. I believe murder demonstrates a lack of respect for human life. For this reason, murder is intolerable and any policy of state authorized killings is immoral.
Executions give society the unmistakable message that human life no longer deserves respect, especially when it is use by the courts in terms of punishment. An eye for an eye is a relic of the earliest days of penology, when slavery, branding and other corporal punishments were ordinary. Like those barbaric prac
There is no way to predict which convicted murderer will kill again. Repeat murders could be prevented by executing all those convicted of criminal homicide, but such a policy as this would be considered far too inhumane and brutal to be taken seriously. Society would never tolerate dozens of executions daily, so why do is capital punishment acceptable for a few chosen. Equally effective and far less inhumane is a policy of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Serve punishment can deter crime, and then long term imprisonment is severe enough to cause any rational person not to commit violent crimes. Life in prison without possibility of parole or the death penalty, both severe punishments to deter crime, but one is humane and the other is not. Why go the extreme for the same cause? <
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