Just Abolish The Death Penalty

I wanna take the chance here to talk about something i seldom talk. Death Penalty.

More than one third of the country in this world still maintain Death Penalty as an option in their justice system. Personally i think this is sad and should be abolished.

Yes, Death Penalty is created to punish those which commit a very serious crime and yes, the methods used for death penalty are some of the most humane way to kill.

However, it's still killing!

Let me put it this way. A person (man or woman) kill some one. He/she is guilty for murder. If we punish him/her by killing the person, does it make us guilty for murder too?

You may say the justice system punish him/her, but in reality we as a person authorize the government to kill a person still make us a murderer.

Furthermore, i thought prison/ jail/ correctional center should be the place to correct people, not punish people. Justice system suppose putting people behind bars to correct the person and make the person "not dangerous" anymore.

So do you think we can correct people using punishment and punishment only? i doubt it.

Death Penalty also has a big problem. What if the person is innocent? He/she may not has the chance to prove it. Over the years we seen countless number of death penalty inmates executed before found innocent.

Besides that, most death row inmates are placed in a small cell, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, decades before the execution of death penalty. So that mean not only the convicted person have to encounter death penalty punishment, but also mental punishment as well.

So the whole point of death penalty is not about correctional, but isolation. The convicted person is claimed by justice system as "too dangerous" to live among us and has to be isolated and put away for good.

Wait, i thought we got something for that situation. It's called the Life in prison without parole. Why Death Penalty and why not life without parole?

I can only see two benefits of life without parole vs Death Penalty. First, cost. An inmates cost around USD 100-30,000 per year depending on country.

Reason 2: fear. The whole point of Death Penalty to public is to inflict fear among us to stop serious crime.

Both reasons are bulls**t.

If we can spend USD 100 million or more to build a prison or jail, why can't we afford the small amount of death penalty inmates. Remember every year we only got around 100 new death penalty recipient. I mean if we can go to moon 40 years ago and only got few tons of moon rock for few hundreds billions dollar, what's the problem of supporting inmates?

Second point is absolutely useless. Over the years, murder cases have been increasing with high percentage. Other serious crimes' number are also fast on the rise. That mean although everyone does feel fear of death penalty, serious crimes still happen.

People who commit serious crimes never thought of the punishment simply because they think they gonna get away from it. They think they can escape from justice. So the death penalty sentence does nothing to stop crime.

No, i do not think murderers "good" people. I hate them as much as all of you. I just don't think the death sentence is suitable and humane way of stopping crime. It's just torture. It's murder as well.

So next time you see a death sentence inmates executed, you, your country and your country's justice system are the murderer!