Argumentative essay

DEATH PENALTY: CRUEL MURDER OR JUST PUNISHMENT

Outline
I.-Introduction.
II.-Get relief for the victims´ relatives.
a) Attitude towards victims´ assailant punishment.
III.-Suppress criminal actions.
a) Benefits of capital punishment to wellbeing of victims` families.
b) Criminal intents avoidance derived from capital punishment.
IV.-People can not chose who lives or who dies.
V..-Conclusion.

As humans appeared on earth, they have always been assailants to other for no apparent reason. As society evolved rules and regulations came to order to avoid these events, several ways to constrain human violence among each other were set. Such restrictions extend across spending some years in prison or to be submited to the most severe punishment: A death sentence. The latter is the conviction given to the meanest of the meanest criminals whom a simple or lesser sentence will not be enough to stop their felonies. But whether they deserve it or not is not an easy choice to make.

In the current society of our days, several people tend to believe that by allowing the capital punishment many people lives could be safe through the process. By doing the former people say that criminals will think about their actions prior doing them or taking action on them, preventing criminals from even to carry them on further. But in most cases that way of thinking does not apply, because criminals do not reflect about the consequences of their actions, they just act as if it were an inner animalistic instinct. The real reason of why wrongdoers do not care about their actions is because during the moment, they only act by anger, by a moment of passion, or simply because of total craziness. William Bowers (2009), criminologist, concluded that: “death penalty has the opposite effect: that is, society is brutalized by the use of the death penalty, and this increases the likelihood of more murder.”So as experts says it might benefit the victims´ relatives but, on the other hand it might create anger and hatred among those who are sentenced or will be.

People in general are also in favor of death penalty because they have come to believe that a just society requires it, in order to take a free-violence day to day life. They act with retaliation, because people think that as someone takes a life the common steadiness of justice is troubled, meaning that in order to maintain equilibrium, some killers must die. From my personal point of view this misconception that people have will only lead them to become into what they are fighting against: an unending sequence of unfair murders, where many people will die unreasonably. Death penalty is not about taking a life, is also about having the respect and cherish one. It is true that by permitting the death penalty to be carried out many criminals would step back, but while the process is done another life is taken. So no matter how many efforts the people in charge of politics do, the execution of a wrongdoer will not be the answer to be finished with delinquency. Regarding about this, we have to learn to live without revenge and feels of payback, because we cannot end violence with violence. By allowing executions we are not solving anything; instead we are becoming the issue.

To conclude, opponents say that the risk of killing innocent people precludes the use of death penalty. They say that having based on the numerous research, evidence and proof they have with them, but no matter if they count with all the information needed to sentence a person, there will always be a minor mistake, which will send an innocent one to a certain death. But even if the former were to happen, for the ones in charge of the punishment, it will not matter, because according to them by killing him/ her they are saving quantities of lives.

Capital punishment has its pros and cons. But even if it has more pros than cons, it should not be allowed to give someone election over a life which is not own to end. So it does not matter if the person is not human, is less human the one who takes his/ her life, because no one is superior to anyone to take or to finish with a life. Taking into account the latter is not in our hands to choose who dies or who lives.

REFERENCE
Capital punishment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.(n.d.).Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved October 15, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_penalty