The Death Penalty

The Death Penalty

I’m not sure as to which issue is more critical, as to which issue is more important, which issue should have a slightly higher priority. Here are some issues that might be the biggest issues facing humanity in this modern world.

War might be the biggest issue facing humanity

War, continuous armament of the world

Disease epidemics

Extreme Poverty, Inequality

Corruption,

Destruction of the environment

I’ve decided to focus on one issue, and I write about it here:

I must admit that on first thought, very first thought, I found it hard not to put a person to death, that I knew “beyond a reasonable doubt” committed heinous crimes against other people. Maybe that emotion and thought are conditioned for me because I live in this country. But after thinking about it for just a moment, I realize that the death penalty is wrong, and should be abolished.

The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. It violates the right to life. It is irrevocable and can be inflicted on the innocent. It has never been shown to deter crime more effectively than other punishments. - (Amnesty International). http://web.amnesty.org/pages/deathpenalty-index-eng

I’ve observed this in social sciences that something to be true has to have observed bombers behind it. Not everything can have these numbers, but many things can. It is shocking that there are 106 death sentences and 60 executions in the United States in the year 2005, when the death penalty was never proven to deter crime more than other methods (Amnesty International). That is the bottom line then, does it deter crime, and it doesn’t.

Now further steps need to be taken, what is to be done with the most horrific of criminals? A serial killer or a terrorist responsible for a bombing which killed 60 people at a temple. Well is it possible to release such people back into society, so they can live on their own? I don’t know, the answer to this question, but it seems like they can’t be. One option would be too force them to work in confinement, all the time treating them humanely. Of course throughout, reasonably, we teach and change the individual for the better and see what happens.