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Basically Death Penalty is the punishment of execution, carried out legally against an individual convicted of a capital crime.
Those who support the death penalty might argue that it is just, and deters crime, while others against it may argue that it is inhumane and it doesn't solve any lore problems in that person's life. However, I believe that the DEATH PENALTY can be substituted by a sentence to life in prison.
Society has always used punishment to discourage would be criminals from unlawful action. Since society has the highest interest in preventing murder, it should use the strongest punishment available to deter murder and that is the death penalty.
If murderers are sentenced to death and executed, potential murderers will think twice by killing for fear of losing their own life. We threaten punishments in order to deter crime.
Retribution is an independent moral justification . Although penalties can be unwise, repulsive, or inappropriate, and those punished can be pitiable, in a sense the infliction of legal punishment on a guilty person cannot be unjust.
By committing the crime, the criminal volunteered to assume the risk of receiving a legal punishment that he/she could have avoided by not committing the crime.
We impose them not only to make the threats credible but also as retribution (justice) for the crimes that were not deterred. The punishment he/she suffers is the punishment he/she voluntarily risked suffering and, therefore, it is no more unjust to him than any other event for which one knowingly volunteers to assume the risk. Thus, the death penalty cannot be unjust to the guilty criminal.
Let's stop the DEATH PENALTY!!!!
