The death penalty is a cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment, and Australia should not reinstate or bring back the death penalty for severe crimes. It is not fair for the innocent people. It is injustice for the innocence and using the death penalty on them is inappropriate because it is something you cannot undo. Wouldn’t it be safer to give them severe punishments instead of killing them? Some people are fighting for their lives in prison. Australia would be breaking the law of “do not kill” and it would only make more families losing members. Why should Australia being back the death penalty, when Australia took away the death penalty in the first place?
People who have been falsely accused have to be executed which is horrible just to think about. People who have been put in death sentences have been killed by lethal injection, electrocution, gas chamber, being hanged or by a firing squad. These are such horrible ways that no one deserves to be killed by. There are so many other ways that criminals can be punished. It is true and obvious that someone who has killed someone else should not be given another chance because it is inappropriate behaviour, but what about those who are innocent, the most you could do is give them extreme and severe punishments. They can be kept
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If you kill someone else, you have murdered someone. It doesn’t matter in any way you do it or who does it. If we punish murderers by the death penalty, doesn’t that mean we are only showing them, that the only solution is killing? What will happen to the law “Do not kill” even the government themselves are ignoring the law. How can people be following the law if the government don’t? Everyone should be following the law, including the government themselves. That’s just being a hypocrite. If Australia wanted to bring back the death penalty why did Australia take away the punishment in the first