Sunday 8 January 2012

Capital punishment


                Nowadays throughout the world, many crimes in human society are becoming more cruel and inhuman such as terrorism, human trafficking, and even serial murders. Due to this, countries like China and United States have set the regulation of capital punishment or death sentence as the heaviest punishment to such tremendous crimes for a long time ago. As we can see, many people lose their family just because of these inhuman acts. As the example, the 2002 Bali Bombings are killing 202 people and 240 people are injured. The WTC building terrorists attack that killed 2996 and more than 6000 people were injured. The terrorist executes his demonic act without caring about the victims, and thus, death sentence is worth with what they have done. Can you imagine the world in future with no more crimes? Or people can live peacefully without any fear of harm? “Punishment is justice for the unjust” maybe is the right answer. Therefore, capital punishment must not be abolished for some purposes. The most significant purpose of capital punishment are to avoid any worse act’s  possibility that the criminal will do after being arrested and to teach other people not to attempt crime in order to increase world’s security        
                For an experienced criminal, giving a death sentence is the best way to avoid any bad possibilities such as jailbreak and more crimes after being released. Even being arrested for one’s lifetime is not very effective to teach them a lesson. Based on Bureau of Justice Statistics, there were 6530 prisoners escaped in US. How can the state assure that these prisoners will not put other people in danger? In fact when a criminal got a second chance, he will do anything that can harm other people to keep running from the police. The biggest escape in British history, on 25 September 1983 in Northern Ireland, is done by a 38 years old guy who is convicted of murderer and causing explosion. He escaped from H-Block 7 prison, kill a prison’s officer and hurt twenty others using a shotgun. He also succeeded in releasing other 38 prisoners. Some of them were rearrested the next year with more sentences for their crimes. A state must consider not taking a high risk by keeping a high level terrorist in a jail. The other example is Osama bin Laden. Can you imagine if the police can arrest him and just put him in the jail? Yes, his men will simply crash another plane in the prison to release him. Therefore, a death sentence is the appropriate way to punish a tremendous crime and cut all of the roots, regarding to what they have done.
                Capital punishment also can teach other people who want to attempt any crimes by creating the fear in them. Once the government really executes the death sentence, people will think twice to do crimes. Like in Singapore, any crimes such as drugs trafficking and murderer can be punished by death sentence. About 400 people have been hanged in Singapore. Based on CNN International, Singapore is the “top executioner” country, and thus has the lowest crimes rate among others, only 45 drugs cases among 100000 people. Even though some people argue that death sentence is inhuman, regarding that criminals also have right to live, but still a state must consider about nation’s security, not one person. After the death sentence’s execution is being known broadly, people will know that the law is firm and assertive in constructing the justice. Realize it or not, it will teach the society to keep in right track, as well as increasing their morale. Therefore, capital punishment is important to teach the people about justice and also significantly decrease criminal’s rate.
                As the conclusion, capital punishment take an important role in cutting of the crimes and all of others possible, also teaching the people not to attempt any criminal’s act. For the crimes are worse nowadays, will you forgive a very bad person that kill many innocent people just for nothing? Has he ever cared about people’s future when he killed them inhumanly? There will be more and more crimes as the result of lack of morale and education. Terrorism, murderer, and drugs trafficking are the worst crimes that will increase in the future. However, preventing all of this maybe is a better way rather than punishment. Overall, a state must be more concern in decreasing the criminal’s rate. Education, prosperity, and morale level are the major points to implement it. If people knows what is right and wrong, there is no such things as criminals, and therefore no need to execute a death sentence.

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