It is a commonly held belief that the death penalty is a good deterrent to prevent heinous crimes. However, others believe that life long sentence is a better deterrent. Discuss both views

It is generally thought, in some countries, that

death

penalty is the best way to convince people not to commit crimes. Others believe that a long

life

sentence is a better way. In

this

essay I will discuss

this

topic, taking into account advantages and disadvantages from both points of view. Regarding the

first

view, we could say that there isn't nothing worse than

death

. So with what courage would anyone commit a

crime

, in a country where capital punishment is legal? On the base of

this

logical reasoning, in

this

way infractions could be reduced to almost zero.

However

, we can see that in most cases

this

is not true. In fact, despite

this

belief, studies reveal the opposite.

For example

, there is capital punishment in some of the USA States, but in these places the

crime

rate is not less than that of other cities or countries where the

death

penalty is not allowed. Contrariwise, according to the studies conducted on

this

topic, a long

life

sentence seems to be a much better deterrent. From a certain point of view, spend all of our remaining

life

in prison can be worse than an immediate

death

. In conclusion, I believe that capital punishment is absolutely not necessary to reduce

crime

rate, but I think that the most important thing about

this

topic is that we don't have any right to kill another human being, whatever the

crime

he has committed. None of us can have a greater right over a person's

life

.