Topic > The Ethics of Capital Punishment - 1610

Should a person have the right to end the life of another human being? It's a question most people have an answer to when it comes to capital punishment. Capital punishment is known by some as one of the cruelest punishments faced by humanity. Some people believe that sentencing a person to death solves nothing. While others believe that it is a revenge for the criminal for the crime he committed. Since colonial times, 13,000 people have been executed, between 1900 and 1985, 139 innocent people were sentenced to death and only 23 were executed. By 1967, lack of support and legal challenges reduced the rate of executions to zero, bringing the practice to a complete end in 1972. Although the Supreme Court authorized its resumption in 1976, capital punishment was still not practiced in all the countries. Even if a fair percentage of the population considers the death penalty abstruse, there are very few people who are unshakable on the subject, in my article I will give you the controversial side of this great dispute. “We cannot overcome crime simply by executing criminals, nor can we restore the lives of the innocent by ending the lives of those convicted of their murder. The death penalty offers the tragic illusion that we can defend life by taking it.” (Conference of Catholic bishops of the United States). Capital punishment is never a way to discipline another human being, as the states that allow it are proven to have the highest crime rate has always been a big debate because it has been used unfairly against people. There have been many people sentenced to death who were found innocent and then sentenced to life imprisonment. Since 1976, 124 prisoners have been released after being found innocent. would be sentenced to death without trial and without waiting for a date. Well, there are many criminals who kill, rape and hurt people just because they feel like it. In my eyes these people are seen as purely evil people who don't deserve a second chance. In my brother's case, I know he didn't mean to hurt the boy, and he felt really bad because he turned himself in. Finally I must say that the death penalty should not be legal anywhere. for the simple fact that many innocent people can be killed. We must understand that when a family loses a love, they want revenge for him and the only revenge they see most of the time is for the suspect to die. If we want to legalize the death penalty there is no need to say that we want to live in a world free from violence. If we want to let God be in charge of taking life, let's just do it and don't let anyone take another person's life.