[Talk] Abolish the Capital Punishment? Or Not

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Executing malefactors for their crime may sound brutal and uncivilized in such a modern world. However a worse evil, war, has not been abolished even in the most modernized and powerful nation; maybe they are just necessary evils. There are at least five major reasons why condemned criminals should be executed. First of all, in the perspective of the humanism, the criminals who are against humanities, if they draw breath, can jeopardize innocent people. On the other hand, it is unfair that we may disregard victims’ human right if we only emphasize criminals’. Besides, the capital punishment will correspond to humanism if the appropriate procedure of execution is implemented. The second opinion is about the criminal policy. The ideal goal of the penalty is asking criminals to repent. However some criminals who may have the anti-social personality may never change behaviors no matter how many chances we give and how hard we try to rehabilitate them. Those inveterate malefactors should be executed for reasons of both social education and crime prevention. Thirdly, even though miscarriage of justice is inevitable in the judicial process, it is nowadays very rigid and scientific. Especially when dealing with cases about death sentences, courts always judge cases over and over again. That is the best they can do. Fourthly, in the view of the effect of deterrence, it is undeniable that capital punishment still have the effect of deterrence. Especially before perpetrating any felonious crime, most people will think twice about the severe consequence - death. In short, negating the functionalities of capital punishment completely and arbitrarily is not reasonable. Last but not the least, in the viewpoint of the victims, executing the criminals who are guilty of the most heinous crimes is justice. Besides, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” is a deep-rooted part of culture. Sometimes the capital punishment maybe is the only way to soothe the profound hatred of the victims and the victims’ families. In summary, after taking everything into consideration, we can safely draw the conclusion that we should not abolish capital punishment, at least not now. Indeed the death penalty is brutal absolutely, and some countries have abolished capital punishment. However, a lot of countries have reinstated the death penalty after abolishing it. Over one thousand capital prisoners have been executed in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, which shows how difficult the abolishment is. The day of the abolishment of any punishment, including capital punishment, should be the day after the extermination of crimes. -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 59.125.163.230