Why Should Capital Punishment Be Abolished

The death penalty is also known as the Capital Punishment in certain countries. It is a legal process whereby a person is punished by execution by the government as a result for crimes committed. In certain countries, this type of punishment is employed mainly for; murder, treason, arson and rape cases. The first cases of death penalty dated as far as the Eighteenth Century B.C. At this time, the death sentences were carried out by the means of; drowning, beaten to death, impalement, crucifixion and burnt alive. It was widely used by the Romans and in the ancient Greece. Nowadays, our ways by which executions take place have also evolve and they are; Gas Chamber, Electrocution, Lethal injection, hanging and Firing squad. Among these examples,
Questioned concerning death penalty started in Europe when an Italian philosopher Cesare Bonesana published a treatise on crime and punishments in 1764. The statement stated that; “For a punishment to discontinue, the evil which it inflicts has only to exceed the advantage derived from the crime committed”. According to this thinking, Capital punishment should be abolished as it exceed the society’s right to defend oneself by its impossibility to rectify his
An advantage of death penalty is that serious crimes have an established final consequence for convicts that cannot act lawfully. Although life in prison sentence punishment is also considered for capital crimes, an increase in criminal behaviour within prison walls is not to be rejected. One of the biggest advantages to keep the death penalty is to prevent the crime from occurring again. Even without possibility of appeal when the criminal is sentenced to life imprisonment, he or she still has the chance to kill the guards or the other convicts in prison since they have nothing to lose if they are already been sentenced for life imprisonment. Thus the death penalty is an assurance that executed criminals will not be able to commit more crimes in the