Death penalty or death sentence, which in some cases is also known as capital punishment which has been practiced in almost every part of the world especially the communist countries, but in the last few decades many countries have tried to eliminate it. Regarding to the Proposition 34 in California, Human Rights and the world globalization, capital punishment should be abolished. There are some reasons supporting the capital punishment abolition which are provided in the following paragraphs.
In term of the human rights, capital punishment seems to be against. Human has rights to get information, to show opinions and especially to be alive. We, as human beings, have a certain privilege on our own lives, but do the lives of others belong to us as well? Do we have the right to decide the kind of lives others can or cannot live?
More than this, since 1990, the death penalty has been abolished by more than thirty countries because it was considered a cruel and inhuman punishment. Death sentence seems to violate religious belief and it is also not a means of dealing with crimes. Moreover, crime committed person should be counseled. More than sixty percents of crime committed people are illiterate and low educated.
And lastly, some people committed crime incidentally. They might have illness that can lead them to commit crime unexpectedly. Even the crime they committed is unplanned or incident, but they might want to pay back what they have committed to the victims in human and moral way. As mentioned in Proposition 34, require persons found guilty of murder to work while in prison, with their wages to be applied to any victim restitution fines or orders against them.
In conclusion, the capital punishment is a power that no man or woman deserves to have over another human being. There are too many flaws in the death penalty; therefore, the only reasonable solution is to abolish it. Punishment is supposed to be a