The death penalty is a punishment of thousands of years of history. At present, there are still many countries and regions that use the death penalty as the capital punishment, but there are also many countries and regions have abolished the death penalty. The argument of whether to abolish the death penalty has also appeared for a long time. This article will discuss why we should not abolish the death penalty from the perspectives of humanism, miscarriage, discrimination and deterrence.
When it comes to capital punishment, people are always talking about whether they are humanized. It seems a very cruel matter to bring death to someone, even on the basis of legal process. Of course, this argument can always be the reason for those abolitionists. …show more content…
It seems that black or poor defendants were likely to be executed than equally guilty others. (Haag, 1985) According to the statistics, “black people make up 34.3 percent of defendants executed in the past, but black people only make up 15 percent of the population in U.S.” (Death penalty information center, 2017). It is an indisputable fact that discrimination does exist while carrying out the death penalty. However, just like an old saying, the gun does not kill, people do. Media, common people, and even judges may have discrimination on a specific group. In modern democratic countries, the law doesn’t have any discrimination against someone, but people do. Also, we can never ignore the high crime rate of black people which also lead to the statistics above. All in all, discrimination can never be one of the arguments, it doesn’t make sense. The miscarriage of death sentence is also one of the main problems and can also be the reason for those abolitionists. However, as long as it is a law, there will definitely be the problem of miscarriage. Abolishing the death penalty because of miscarriage is just like giving up surgery because surgeons’ misses may cause the death of patients, which is absurd and doesn’t make sense at all. Also, according to the statistics “Since 1973, more than 155 people have been released from death row with evidence of their innocence. From 1973-1999, there was an average of 3 exonerations per year. From 2000-2011, there was an average of 5 exonerations per year”. (Death penalty information center, 2017) All in all, miscarriage will never be one of the reasons to abolish the death penalty
When it comes to capital punishment, people are always talking about whether they are humanized. It seems a very cruel matter to bring death to someone, even on the basis of legal process. Of course, this argument can always be the reason for those abolitionists. …show more content…
It seems that black or poor defendants were likely to be executed than equally guilty others. (Haag, 1985) According to the statistics, “black people make up 34.3 percent of defendants executed in the past, but black people only make up 15 percent of the population in U.S.” (Death penalty information center, 2017). It is an indisputable fact that discrimination does exist while carrying out the death penalty. However, just like an old saying, the gun does not kill, people do. Media, common people, and even judges may have discrimination on a specific group. In modern democratic countries, the law doesn’t have any discrimination against someone, but people do. Also, we can never ignore the high crime rate of black people which also lead to the statistics above. All in all, discrimination can never be one of the arguments, it doesn’t make sense. The miscarriage of death sentence is also one of the main problems and can also be the reason for those abolitionists. However, as long as it is a law, there will definitely be the problem of miscarriage. Abolishing the death penalty because of miscarriage is just like giving up surgery because surgeons’ misses may cause the death of patients, which is absurd and doesn’t make sense at all. Also, according to the statistics “Since 1973, more than 155 people have been released from death row with evidence of their innocence. From 1973-1999, there was an average of 3 exonerations per year. From 2000-2011, there was an average of 5 exonerations per year”. (Death penalty information center, 2017) All in all, miscarriage will never be one of the reasons to abolish the death penalty