Some people advocate the death penalty for those who committed violent crimes. Others say that capital punishment is unacceptable in contemporary society.Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the death penalty and give your opinion.
Crimes
have become an integral part of everyone's life. A variety of crimes
exist all over the world and people are of the opinion that the death
penalty should be announced for heinous crimes
committed by an individual in the court of law. In this
essay, I partly agree with this
statement as crimes
should be distinguished and accordingly
the punishment should be allocated.
There has been quite a series of violent crimes
committed which gives us goosebumps when we hear about it. The mentality of such
people is such
that they want to create a state of fear among others or want to let everyone know what they are capable of. For instance
, a girl was gang-raped in a local train by fifteen men or a man killed his wife on the basis of the assumption that she was having an extra-marital affair with their neighbour. Such
crimes
should be taken into consideration and the immediate death
penalty should be allocated as it would stop further
crime in the country.
However
, there may be some crimes
that are committed due to self-defence. There was an instance in India where a woman was assaulted by her husband and her in-laws on a daily basis with respect to dowry. The woman killed her husband in trying to protect herself from further
assault. Hence
, such
crimes
should not be considered violent and she should be given the benefit of the doubt for committing such
a crime. The mental level of an individual is been hammered to take such
a step towards crime.
In conclusion, I would like to state that violent crimes
may be committed but the reason behind committing those crimes
should also
be taken into consideration before advocating the death
penalty. Also
, people should be made aware of the consequence and the effect they would have mentally and physically on those who have been given death
penalties without knowing the real facts behind it.Submitted by kshama1304 on
Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Writing9 with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.