The Pros And Cons Of Abolishing The Death Penalty?

Death penalty is a form of punishment that involves executing the person after that person is found guilty by the state for committing major crimes such as murder, terrorism, rape, drug trafficking and other severe crimes. The death penalty was practiced more often by the societies in the past but nowadays many developed nations have abolished this punishment. There is only 58 countries currently practicing the death penalty including China, India, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United States. Even though many people are against the death penalty, but whether death penalty should be abolished is still an argumentative topic.

Since the 18th century, a number of countries around the world have abolished the practice entirely, nowadays Death penalty is abolished in most countries of the world such as the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Turkey and Australia. In the 1967 Ronald Joseph Ryan was the last person to be legally executed in Australia. In the 1984 Australia abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes and a year later they have abolished the death penalty for all the crimes as they had many reasons for that.

Advantages and disadvantages of abolishing the death penalty
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That punishment can be replaced with other types of punishment such as life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, which also servers the same purpose as the death penalty as it removes the threat away from the society without taking the life of another human being. And unlike the death penalty, life imprisonment is reversible and an innocent who is kept in jail can be