Sonntag, 29. März 2009

Death penalty: yes or no?

Death penalty is always a current issue, that’s why I choose this topic. There are many organisations, which fight against the death penalty, for example Amnesty International.
Death penalty is very controversial issue. On the one hand in Europe the death penalty is abolished almost anywhere, on the other hand the USA, where death penalty is a normal punishment. In this essay I will look at the arguments of the supporters and the opponents.

To start with the supporters and their arguments. They say that a murderer or an evil criminal is danger for the public and so we have to kill them.
And if a murderer kills someone we have to kill this guy to.
And the supporters think it’s determent for other criminals, who maybe see what’s happen to this guys and so they don’t do it.

In contrast the opponents. In their opinion every human have the right to live, everybody can make a mistake. Besides it’s prove that the death penalty don’t determent anyone, in the contrary, in countries with the death penalty is the rate of murder, higher than in the other countries. And the argument with the danger is wrong, too, because if you are in prison, your whole life, you aren’t any danger for public.

To sum up, death penalty is a big problem. But I know it’s very difficult to solve it. In guess the whole world should abolish the death penalty, since I’m convinced that the opponents have the better arguments. In my opinion death penalty is the wrong way to punish, because everybody learn from the own mistakes and every human have the right to live.

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