Speech on Death Penalty
The title of my talk is death penalty. Today I’ll be talking about death penalty because it is a matter of active controversy in various countries.
There is nothing more final than death hence we should make sure that our desire for justice doesn’t lead us to commit the very crime we’re trying to punish. As you all probably know, the death penalty is a legal process in which a person is put to death by the state was a punishment for a crime he/she has committed. In the past this was a punishment practiced by most societies, but currently 58 nations actively practice it while 97 countries have abolished it. The question is though, why should we abolish death penalty? If someone kills, doesn’t justice demand that the killer should lose his/her life too? When a person is punished, what we want is make sure to teach them a lesson; but how do we do this if we kill them? ...Then why is there such controversy on whether it should be abolished or not?
First, let us analyze the reason why certain people crave for death penalty, while others are so against it. Nowadays ruthless crimes like mass killing of children, raping of infants, slaughtering women and innocent little ones, are being committed. And what do the criminals get? A couple of years in prison, then a bribe will settle things out. In a corrupted, hypocritical society like ours, any punishment consisting in time spent in prison would be unfair and not enough to pay off for the suffering that such criminals include. That is, they ruin lives, they take innocent lives, so the penalty should be death right? A life for a life, a hand for a hand, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, isn’t it?
Another thing though is that no system of justice can produce results which are 100% certain all the time. Mistake will always be inevitable...Then would condemning someone to death, only to later discover that they were innocent make us fair? Or would it just make us no different from who commit such crimes?
Moving on,
There is nothing more final than death hence we should make sure that our desire for justice doesn’t lead us to commit the very crime we’re trying to punish. As you all probably know, the death penalty is a legal process in which a person is put to death by the state was a punishment for a crime he/she has committed. In the past this was a punishment practiced by most societies, but currently 58 nations actively practice it while 97 countries have abolished it. The question is though, why should we abolish death penalty? If someone kills, doesn’t justice demand that the killer should lose his/her life too? When a person is punished, what we want is make sure to teach them a lesson; but how do we do this if we kill them? ...Then why is there such controversy on whether it should be abolished or not?
First, let us analyze the reason why certain people crave for death penalty, while others are so against it. Nowadays ruthless crimes like mass killing of children, raping of infants, slaughtering women and innocent little ones, are being committed. And what do the criminals get? A couple of years in prison, then a bribe will settle things out. In a corrupted, hypocritical society like ours, any punishment consisting in time spent in prison would be unfair and not enough to pay off for the suffering that such criminals include. That is, they ruin lives, they take innocent lives, so the penalty should be death right? A life for a life, a hand for a hand, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, isn’t it?
Another thing though is that no system of justice can produce results which are 100% certain all the time. Mistake will always be inevitable...Then would condemning someone to death, only to later discover that they were innocent make us fair? Or would it just make us no different from who commit such crimes?
Moving on,