Almost 40 years ago, death penalty was abolished in Australia. Today, there has been a lot of debate as to reintroducing the capital punishment for severe crimes in Australia. Some would agree to give death penalty for major crimes and some would say life time imprisonment would be a better option. Criminals feel empowered when crime is punished lightly and crime proliferates. So, death penalty is a possible solution to lower down the crime rates and to give proper punishment for serious crimes in Australia.
Roy Morgan institute conducted a public opinion survey where responders were given the following question: "In your opinion, should the penalty for murder be death or imprisonment?" The results show that as years go by, people would choose imprisonment rather than death penalty. One of the main reasons for this would be the societal changes, where as people would rather be …show more content…
According to the Australian and other Common Law judiciary, stability should be re-established among a criminal and his/her victims. This only means that the criminal is required to compensate the victim’s family in every way equally or sometimes more. When it comes to capital punishment for murder or treason, it is not very easy for a family or the home country to just give imprisonment to the criminal. As the saying goes “an eye for an eye” which is also called the law of retaliation, is the belief that an individual who has hurt another individual is to be punished to a similar degree, or in softer explanations, the victim receives the same value of the injury in return. Of course this shall pass through fair trials and other legal processes. Therefore there's no reason to believe countries that has abolished the death penalty is in any way superior to the ones where it is still on the
Roy Morgan institute conducted a public opinion survey where responders were given the following question: "In your opinion, should the penalty for murder be death or imprisonment?" The results show that as years go by, people would choose imprisonment rather than death penalty. One of the main reasons for this would be the societal changes, where as people would rather be …show more content…
According to the Australian and other Common Law judiciary, stability should be re-established among a criminal and his/her victims. This only means that the criminal is required to compensate the victim’s family in every way equally or sometimes more. When it comes to capital punishment for murder or treason, it is not very easy for a family or the home country to just give imprisonment to the criminal. As the saying goes “an eye for an eye” which is also called the law of retaliation, is the belief that an individual who has hurt another individual is to be punished to a similar degree, or in softer explanations, the victim receives the same value of the injury in return. Of course this shall pass through fair trials and other legal processes. Therefore there's no reason to believe countries that has abolished the death penalty is in any way superior to the ones where it is still on the