"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’’. The death penalty has become one of the biggest controversial issue in the recent years, whether it is properly right or wrong. The death penalty is known to be the punishment of death used in some countries for people who have executed very serious crimes. It is generally accepted in the US and some other nations such as China and Iran. Nevertheless, since 1990, the execution has been abandoned by more than thirty countries around the world.
I strongly believe that death penalty should not even exist because it is costly, inhumane and it is not a crime deterrent.
In the first place, there is no denying that death penalty is always cruel and inhumane. There are many ways to punish the criminals, so
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It is widely agreed that sentencing to prison seem to be more appropriate retribution and more effective deterrent. More specifically, the death sentence only takes the criminals a moment to pass away, while a life in a prison makes them to feel the pain for decades. In addition, it is more satisfy to put the prisoners in a cage and live with the internal environment of violence and rape. Do you think they would rather endure the mortification of long lasting jail or be "martyred" by a capital punishment? What might have been a superior consummation for Osama Bin Laden, the bullet that slaughtered him right away, or an existence of embarrassment in an American jail ?
On the other hand, there is an argument that death penalty is necessary for the families of victims to move on properly. The families of the victims feel it is hard to live a normal life when they know that the murderer who killed their family’s member is still alive. Regardless of the possibility that the criminal is set in the most secure office conceivable, fear still around the family 's victims. While this dread might be silly, that doesn 't make it any less