Should Australia re-introuce capital punishment
By Ava Diepeveen
Should Australia Re-introduce the Death Penalty?
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the practise of executing someone as punishment for a serious crime after a legal trial(s).
Humans are not perfect, humans are not always right, imperfect humans cannot give out perfect justice. As much as we may abhor another human beings action, is executing someone for killing someone else really the right thing to do? Two wrongs don’t make a right. When a country abolishes the death penalty it isn’t plunged into criminal chaos and countries that use the death penalty don’t have lower crime rates compared to those that do. The death penalty can kill the innocent and can target those with darker skin. The death penalty tortures and kills, no matter how heinous the crime no human deserves the death penalty. Is it paramount that Australia re-introduces the death penalty? Just because capital punishment is legal in other countries, it doesn’t mean that it should be here.
If Australia re-introduced capital punishment many would assume that crime rates would decrease, however statistics show that this is untrue. In the United States of America in 2011 the rate of homicides in the states where capital punishment was legal was 4.7% per 100,000 American citizens. In the states where capital punishment was illegal the amount of homicides was 3.1%. During the last twenty years in America, homicide rates in the states with capital punishment have been 48% to 101% percent higher compared to the the states without capital punishment. This statistical evidence proves that capital punishment will not lower crime rates, but even if it did does it still make it right?
The death penalty can be injust and can target minority groups or those who look different. There have been an ubiquitous amount of cases in America where Asians, Hispanics, African Americans and many others, have been convicted of crimes they did not commit and then prosecuted.
Should Australia Re-introduce the Death Penalty?
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the practise of executing someone as punishment for a serious crime after a legal trial(s).
Humans are not perfect, humans are not always right, imperfect humans cannot give out perfect justice. As much as we may abhor another human beings action, is executing someone for killing someone else really the right thing to do? Two wrongs don’t make a right. When a country abolishes the death penalty it isn’t plunged into criminal chaos and countries that use the death penalty don’t have lower crime rates compared to those that do. The death penalty can kill the innocent and can target those with darker skin. The death penalty tortures and kills, no matter how heinous the crime no human deserves the death penalty. Is it paramount that Australia re-introduces the death penalty? Just because capital punishment is legal in other countries, it doesn’t mean that it should be here.
If Australia re-introduced capital punishment many would assume that crime rates would decrease, however statistics show that this is untrue. In the United States of America in 2011 the rate of homicides in the states where capital punishment was legal was 4.7% per 100,000 American citizens. In the states where capital punishment was illegal the amount of homicides was 3.1%. During the last twenty years in America, homicide rates in the states with capital punishment have been 48% to 101% percent higher compared to the the states without capital punishment. This statistical evidence proves that capital punishment will not lower crime rates, but even if it did does it still make it right?
The death penalty can be injust and can target minority groups or those who look different. There have been an ubiquitous amount of cases in America where Asians, Hispanics, African Americans and many others, have been convicted of crimes they did not commit and then prosecuted.