“After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor,” John Huston (Silver and Ursini 237). Crime has become a part of human life. To prevent it, human has created the punishment system to scare others from sin, and the ultimate payment for a crime is death sentence. Death penalty was and still thought to be the most effective and definitive way of examples for crimes’ consequences. Since 1976, the death penalty was re-instituted in the U.S: Texas has executed the total of 529 criminals (DPIC 1). Although death penalty is one of the solutions for crimes, there are some opinions debate that this punishment is cruel and immoral.
The first one approve death penalty as the method to secure others’ lives, to put an end to a threat, and …show more content…
If death penalty is a way that the offender pay for the crime of murder, how did killing another man is right? The death penalty is somehow legalized murdering. In the end, there is no right in search for revenge even though it is under the law authorization. After all, murder is wrong and that apply to everyone. The overuse of death penalty makes people believe that takeaway someone’s life is right thing to do. Percy Shelley believed, “Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder” (Shelly 1). Nobody has the right to take anybody’s life, and justice is not a good reason to end life from …show more content…
Not all the cases with death sentences is right, “I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death,” said Gary Johnson (Johnson 1). In addition, the cost of it is also excessively expensive; therefore, this solution is not as good as its definition. The death penalty has its impacts to the criminal behavior of people as the result of reducing crime rates since it was re-instituted. One can say keep it but only for a symbol. Life is precious, and no one has the right to end other’s
The first one approve death penalty as the method to secure others’ lives, to put an end to a threat, and …show more content…
If death penalty is a way that the offender pay for the crime of murder, how did killing another man is right? The death penalty is somehow legalized murdering. In the end, there is no right in search for revenge even though it is under the law authorization. After all, murder is wrong and that apply to everyone. The overuse of death penalty makes people believe that takeaway someone’s life is right thing to do. Percy Shelley believed, “Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder” (Shelly 1). Nobody has the right to take anybody’s life, and justice is not a good reason to end life from …show more content…
Not all the cases with death sentences is right, “I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death,” said Gary Johnson (Johnson 1). In addition, the cost of it is also excessively expensive; therefore, this solution is not as good as its definition. The death penalty has its impacts to the criminal behavior of people as the result of reducing crime rates since it was re-instituted. One can say keep it but only for a symbol. Life is precious, and no one has the right to end other’s