Napoleon Beazley was 17 in April 1994 when he killed a 63-year-old businessman called John Luttig in an attempt to steal a car. He was convicted and sentenced to death on 28 May 2002 aged 25. So the question here arises whether it is ethical to murder a criminal? Does capital punishment serve justice? I firmly believe that capital punishment should be abrogated. Capital punishment is Immoral and has a hypocritical nature. Capital punishment has failed to deter crime. There is a superior, more compassionate and cheaper alternative.
Capital Punishment is immoral and hypocritical. Capital punishment comes in numerous sorts like torture, electric chair, gas chambers, sawing, etc. In a society that is just and doting, The justice system would …show more content…
The alternative to capital punishment is a life sentence. A life sentence is to keep someone in prison for the remainder of his life. Firstly, a life sentence is more humane than capital punishment because it involves no death, rather life sentence makes the offender regret his wrongdoing by thinking about his misdeed. Secondly, Life sentence gives the offender the opportunity to deeply repent for his sin and makes the culprit spend longer time repenting and asking God for salvation. While it is a reality that capital punishment gives you a chance to repent and ask for salvation too, however, life sentence gives the offender a longer time to repent and ask for salvation. Longer time asking for salvation and longer time for atoning might actually cause the sinner to be reformed spiritually. Moreover, life sentence might actually grant us the flexibility to set the innocent free while capital punishment does not. If an offender is convicted and given a life sentence then he was proven innocent, the punishment is reversible by setting him free and giving him compensation but if an offender was exonerated and given a death penalty, it would be too late to reverse punishment after the sentence is given. A life sentence is reversible and gives us the flexibility to set the innocent free. For example, in Roy’s case, if Roy was given a life sentence instead of capital punishment he might have been set free when the actual murderer was found. In addition, life sentence fulfills the same two purposes capital punishment was aimed to do. Capital punishment is aimed at isolating malefactors from society by killing while life sentence has a more humane answer by literally isolating them in prisons. Also, capital punishment is aimed at deterring crime which life sentence does better than capital punishment as we can conclude from statistics and polls. Last but not least, life sentence saves
Capital Punishment is immoral and hypocritical. Capital punishment comes in numerous sorts like torture, electric chair, gas chambers, sawing, etc. In a society that is just and doting, The justice system would …show more content…
The alternative to capital punishment is a life sentence. A life sentence is to keep someone in prison for the remainder of his life. Firstly, a life sentence is more humane than capital punishment because it involves no death, rather life sentence makes the offender regret his wrongdoing by thinking about his misdeed. Secondly, Life sentence gives the offender the opportunity to deeply repent for his sin and makes the culprit spend longer time repenting and asking God for salvation. While it is a reality that capital punishment gives you a chance to repent and ask for salvation too, however, life sentence gives the offender a longer time to repent and ask for salvation. Longer time asking for salvation and longer time for atoning might actually cause the sinner to be reformed spiritually. Moreover, life sentence might actually grant us the flexibility to set the innocent free while capital punishment does not. If an offender is convicted and given a life sentence then he was proven innocent, the punishment is reversible by setting him free and giving him compensation but if an offender was exonerated and given a death penalty, it would be too late to reverse punishment after the sentence is given. A life sentence is reversible and gives us the flexibility to set the innocent free. For example, in Roy’s case, if Roy was given a life sentence instead of capital punishment he might have been set free when the actual murderer was found. In addition, life sentence fulfills the same two purposes capital punishment was aimed to do. Capital punishment is aimed at isolating malefactors from society by killing while life sentence has a more humane answer by literally isolating them in prisons. Also, capital punishment is aimed at deterring crime which life sentence does better than capital punishment as we can conclude from statistics and polls. Last but not least, life sentence saves