Essay On Death Penalty In Canada

Should Canada Reinstate The Death Penalty For [First-Degree] Murder?

Intro Needed

Looking at this problem from a non-Christian level, it depends on your conscience and status in the world. From the point of view of a court judge, they might not want to deal the stress of ordering a death penalty. For example, the murder rates doubled in the ten years after Canada ended the death penalty for first-degree murder. You may think that this is because murderers didn’t have to die if they got caught. It might have been but studies in Texas and California (Where the death penalty is still in place) showed that murder rates were unaffected by the punishments received. You then would suspect that this was because the judges wouldn’t be worried that they were basically murdering the person guilty of murder. Your life might be altered because of your own personal guilt and conscience telling you what you did was wrong, so now you could charge someone guilty of murder without having that weight on your back. Plus, what if you later found out that the

As soon as we start taking them away and behaving in a savage way, such as retaliating to murder with murder, we will start to lose that identity and may become like other nations ruled by fear. In this aspect, we don’t care about people’s feelings and our “primary concern here is not compassion for the murderer”. Based on the identity of Canada and how our freedom was made to work, the death penalty was a bad thing to have. If you again consider the fact that mistakes have been made about who is guilty of murder (8 Canadians convicted of murder after the abolishment of the death penalty were innocent), then why put innocent people at risk? If a murderer had a grudge against someone or someone found out that they were planning something, the murderer could frame them and get them executed if there was a death penalty option in