Critical Thinking Essay #3

Pros and Cons of Capital Punishment

Is Death the way to solve problems? As stated by the Britannica Encyclopedia, capital punishment is also called the death penalty which is means an execution of a criminal sentenced to death after a conviction by a court of law of a criminal offense. However, some people commited crime because they have resons such as self-defense and these people will need to be consider again before just putting them into death penalty. Besides, there always have the pros and cons of this capital punishment.

To strat with, there are several pros of doing capital punishment. First of all, prison is the place to rehabilitate convicts who will eventually leave prisons. Logically, people who are rehabilitating in prison are less likely going to repeat their crimes and sentenced in prison again, yet, for people who are not supposed to be release from the prison alive, death penalty will be the best way to execute them. Second of all, capital punishment is truly cost effective to the government. Lucidly, the cost of imprisoning a person for his or her whole life is lots more expensive then just executing the same person in a time. Third of all or lastly, capital punushment will make the security of the public to be more assured. For example, normally, people who are sentenced to capital punishment are people who commited in a big crime and they usually are a violent individuals. And these people might harm the prison’s guard or other prisoners. At the same time, they might ran away and it harmfull to the general public as well. Therefore, by giving capital punishment to a violent individual will make the society to become more secure, and subsequently it will help to safe lots of money compared to imprisoning criminals for ther whole life.

On the other hand, there are quite a few cons to do the capital punishment. Firstly, capital punishment is not humane because killing a person is not humane. Even though the criminal is not humane, but everyone’s beliefs and education had taught them about what is humane and what’s right to do and what’s wrong to do. Secondly, Some people belief that the death penalty violates the human rights. They believe that killing them or death is the violation of the person’s rights to live. Lastly, some people believe that killing and capital punishment is playing God. Some people believe that all death has to be natural and murder is one part of a nature death. Thus, the cons of doing the capital punishment will includes morality and beliefs of individuals because some people believe that death penalty is not humane, it against human rights to live, and it’s changing the natural death or also called playing with God’s plan.

In conclusion, there are always being the pros and cons of the capital punishment because kiling is against the morality of human and people knows that two wrong do not make a right. In contrast, keeping a criminal will affect the society’ssecurity as well. In my opnion, convicting person to the death penalty may need to stated clear information of the person criminal records. At the same time, before conviting a person, the court will have to look for reasons and backgrounds of the criminal and reconsider wether execution is needed or not. Thus, clear and solid evidence is the best way to tell wether a person need to be executed or not becase without strong evidence and clear reasons killing a person is still consider a crime and it againts the human rights.

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