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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.

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In the
last
 years, the capital punishment effectiveness has been one of the main issues of discussion within the international community, with countries against it and others in
favor
promote over another
favour
 of it. It's a matter of fact that while some people consider tough punishments, like
death
Suggestion
the death penalty
penalty
, necessary to avoid terrible crimes, others prefer long
life
 imprisonment and are demanding to abolish
death
Suggestion
the death penalty
penalty
. On one side, in some countries, the
death
penalty
 is still present in many juridical systems. While in some nations, like the United States, it is applied for heinous crimes
such
 as murder, in others is a sanction
also
 for lower crimes,
such
 as drug trafficking.
This
 is
for instance
 the case of Indonesia.
However
, in all these countries, laws reflect the main perception of citizens regarding the relationship between crime and punishment and the necessity to have stronger deterrents to avoid people to do something considered wrong in the society.
Last
 but not least, we have
also
 to consider that from a political point of view capital punishment is sometimes very useful to extreme right political parties, in order to get more votes from citizens convinced that crime is particularly present in our cities.
On the other hand
, most of the European countries have abolished
death
Suggestion
the death penalty
penalty
, considering that against human rights and they have preferred to apply
long
Suggestion
the long life sentence
life
 sentence in
case
Suggestion
the case
 of grave crimes.
First
 of all, in these nations, the main idea is that prison is not just aimed to punish
people but
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people, but
also
 to educate them and to prepare them to be part again of the community.
Secondly
, politicians are
also
 aware that citizen consider human
life
 as the most precious value and are not ready to accept state to have
this
 great power to decide whenever they can live or die. In conclusion,
death
Suggestion
the death penalty
penalty
 is one of the biggest issues in the international community, especially because some countries still apply it and other decided to abolish it. Part of the public opinion
consider
Suggestion
considers
 it necessary to prevent terrible crimes, while others prefer long
life
 sentence, considering it more effective.
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