Camus Arguments Against Capital Punishment

In the article Camus takes a strong position for the abolition of the death penalty.
Which is related to that of Cesare Beccaria, they have the same dispute that murder intended and carried out by the state was the worst kind. Camus states, that he does not base his argument on sympathy for the convicted but on reasonable grounds and on proven statistics. Camus also disputes that capital punishment is an easy alternative for the government where improvement and change may be possible. Camus's main point in his argument against capital punishment is its ineffectiveness. Camus points out that in countries where the death penalty has already been abandoned crime has not risen. He explains this by arguing that the world has changed so that capital punishment no longer serves as the deterrent that it may once have been.
Camus say that executions should take place privately in prisons. Although Camus approved of conducting the executions in private he argued that it removed the element of deterrence and rendered the death penalty as merely a means for the state to dispose of those whom it saw as irremediable
Camus also argued that the threat of death is insufficient to prevent people from committing crimes as death is the common fate shared by all, regardless of guilt. He also believed that because most murders are not premeditated no
In such civilizations Camus states that the death penalty was usually administered by the Church in order to deprive the convicted of the divine gift of life. However, by doing so, the convicted would then face judgement and have the chance of atonement at the hands of God. In an unbelieving world, Camus argues, the convicted is given no chance of atonement. The process takes place completely separate from the convict and simply dismisses him as beyond salvation or