The death penalty

The death penalty

In some countries the death penalty remains legal nowadays, and today I’m going to give my opinion about the abolition of it.

On a personal level I am against the death penalty, I think that it should be abolished wherever it is legal, and never be legalized in any more countries.

Arguments

• The right to live is a fundamental one, as serious as the committed crime could be, no country should be allowed to end a life.
• Killing a criminal isn’t justice (as many people claim), is just revenge and goes against the prisoner’s right to rehabilitation.
• U.S.A. is the only country on America where this penalty is executed nowadays, and on a global level it appears next to Iran, Irak and Saudi Arabia.
• This execution has a high number of errors, for example in Oklahoma, one mistake injecting the lethal dose made the condemned to be agonizing for 43 minutes
• With the death penalty a country is trying to teach you to not killing by killing you if you do it.
• If a person is found guilty for a crime that he didn’t commit, once applied the penalty there isn’t a coming back.

In conclusion, the death penalty should be abolished since its inhuman, no human has the right to take the life of another one, and the people that commit a crime should be helped to get reinserted in the society, because in countries where the death penalty is legal (like Iran), there is still a high rate of crime, compared to the Nordic countries where they are strongly focused on the rehabilitation there is almost no crime.

Marco Araya