The death penalty is applied at random of the 15,000 to 17,000 homicides committed each year in the United States of America , approximately 120 people are sentenced to death penalty, less than 1%. Applying the death penalty would not mean every criminal will sentenced to death. The court of justice still has to prove if they are guilty or not, therefore even the death penalty applied only few will face the death penalty punishment. Instead of thinking of punishment to deter crime, we should think of why people committing crime at first place. We should think of solutions, how we can have a free- crime country. Country that has zero crime, to achieve that we must focus on education. The education is the magical key that will open all the doors and solves all our problems. Building an education society that respects and values each other will have impact on the individual in the society. Person who raised in such society will never do act that will harm or damage the …show more content…
Moreover its gives the rich people the upper hand since they can afford a good lawyer not as the poor people, yet the death penalty does not deter crime as peoples believe , Therefore is a better alternative: life without parole. At the end every one of us deserve a second chance, we're human being we are not perfect we make mistakes every single day in our lives, and that's how we learn that's how we grow by learning from our mistakes therefore no one deserves to die for their mistakes, moreover its not the best solution to deter crime rate in the Philippine or any other country, which only imply encourage violent in the society, because the one whom kill the criminal, in way they are all the same, we live in 21st century, we should find a better way to solve our problem than just get rid of the criminal by killing