Proponents of the death penalty say it is an important tool for preserving law and order, make our society a safe place, deters crime, and costs less than life imprisonment, retribution or "an eye for an eye" honours the victim, and ensures that the perpetrators of heinous crimes never have an opportunity to cause future tragedy. A majority of a state 's subjects may wish to confer the right to put certain classes of criminal to death through referendum or voting in state elections for candidates favouring capital punishment. Majority opinion in some democratic countries, including the N.Z. is still in favour of the death penalty. Let us examine the merits of both the pro and anti arguments.
The Pros are for the death penalty stands for to make our society a safe place. Then the cons are against the use of this method stating that there is other ways to make a safe society for us to live in that does not use this type of extreme violence. The cons look at the death penalty and why they are against the use of capital punishment to make a safe society for us to live in. This is because that they believe that there are numerous ways that do not involve the use of violence to create a non violent society in which we can be safe.
One of the biggest concerns is that the death penalty will be unfortunately given to an innocent person and is wrongly