Capital punishment

The Death Penalty Should Be Outlawed

As human being, we are born and living together in one earth, and one world. Because of that, we need to love or to be loved, to care or to be cared to each other. Even though there are both pro and cons, the death penalty is always an argumentative topic in the society, which comes along with a lot of unsolvable issues. In my opinion, I strongly think that the capital punishment should be banned in this society. To explain for this opinion, there are three points that are Death Penalty is not humane; it might be an irrevocable mistake; and the last reason is the expensive cost for Capital Punishment that the Government has to afford. Certainly, Capital Punishment is a cruel action to human by applying many execution methods such as Lethal injection, electrocution, gas chamber, hanging, firing squad,... The main purpose of those horrible ways consider as murder; putting them in painful death that seems not a right thing to do in morality. For example, try to imagine and you are as a criminal in this kind of situation, you surely do not want to die in such a pain like that. Moreover, the family members of the executed needlessly suffer too. To die in front of them will even be more painful which nobody wants to watch this miserable sight. Instead of suffering those terrible things, the criminal want to have a second chance to fix your mistakes, and to start his or her life all over again to become a better person in the future.
The quote “ When you forgive, you in no way change the past, but you sure do change the future” by Bernard Meltzer, implies that we live for tomorrow world, not for the past, thus, there is nothing bad about forgiving people and giving them a second chance to live honestly.

Secondly, what if death penalty which is granted for the criminal, is right and fair punishment or if the criminal is guiltless? In the end, what does the court who judges wrong offset for the victim after finding out what he or she did was irrevocable mistakes.
According to the source by Russ Feingold, from US Senator (D-WI) introducing the “National Death Penalty Moratorium Act of 2000”, April 26, 2000, “...Since the reinstatement of the modern Death Penalty, eighty seven people have been freed from death row because they were later proven innocent. That is a demonstrated error rate of one innocent person for every seven persons executed. When the consequences are life and death, we need to demand the same standard for our system of justice as we would for our airlines... It is a central pillar of our criminal justice system that is better that many guilty people go free than that one innocent should suffer... Let us reflect to ensure that we are bring just. Let us pause to be certain we do not kill a single innocent person. This is really not too much to ask for a civilized society.” In reality, time continuously passes by very fast, and every one is getting old in the same time. Thus, the people who have to suffer the Death Penalty will not be able to enjoy their youths again because their lives are already taken away by the Judge. Indeed, there is no justification for an innocent person dying. One innocent death is one too many and is not outweighed by the "benefits" of the death penalty. Third, the comparison between the Capital Punishment and the life in Jail is also an issue for the current economy in general. To compare, the total cost for a death penalty trial, subsequent time on death row and execution is much higher than the cost of just sentencing a person to live in prison. For more details, the government need to run more pre-trail time, more experts, twice as many attorneys, and other expenses. After all, the result will not help to change any thing from the past. Otherwise, the government should make the prisoner to spend the rest of their lives paying for their evils because put them to death is not even enough for their mistakes. Also, it is an effective way in participating in changing the world to become “no-crime”. Finally, my opinion is the Capital Punishment should be outlawed in the society. There are so many different and effective ways to make the criminal repay for what they did. To punish them to death is not humane, and very cruel to themselves, and their family too. In the mean time, the message I want to send to all the readers is because no body perfect, everyone makes mistakes, please give the criminal a second chance to restart their lives honestly over again.

Cite sources: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/forgive.html http://deathpenalty.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=002000