Some people believe that there should be fixed punishments for each type of crime. Others, however, argue that the circumstances of an individual crime, and the motivation for committing it, should always be taken into account when deciding on the punishment. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion

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Capital
punishment
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had been for a long time the most popular way of
punishment
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of the world before it was abolished in the past century. Nowadays it has a bad reputation among democratic countries, being considered a brutal way of
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and is perceived as a threat of totalitarianism.
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, a lot of people in the present are for
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method. Taking the part of most countries and of human
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,
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way of
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must be interdicted because it is, in the first place, contradictory to the Declaration of Human
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.
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, is a radical method of extermination of individuals who broke the law, that doesn’t have any chance to be corrected in the future, and, in consequence, an unfairly condemned person might be killed. Taking into consideration that today exists a huge variety of forms of penalty, like bills or life detention,
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a grave breach of human
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has to be forbidden.
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, taking into account all the criminals that committed a number of murders or sexual aggressions one by one and the detention couldn't avoid it, these sort of criminals has to be free of
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and killed. Society should understand that it is not just a mentally ill person that unconsciously murdered a certain number of human beings in the past, but it is a perilous member of society
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capable to repeat his crime over again. In my personal opinion, capital
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has to remain in service as the
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choice in case of extremely grave murders.
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, it has to be strictly controlled by international organizations,
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as the UN or the Supreme Court of Justice at Haga, but not used like in Belarus or Russia for political opponents. These being said, these two points of view have their strong points, as the
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by death has its risks and a history of terror behind it, but it
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may be a secure solution to eliminate some people who represent a real danger to the community's wellbeing.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • fixed punishments
  • consistency
  • predictability
  • deter crime
  • potential offenders
  • streamline
  • judicial process
  • bias
  • corruption
  • complexity
  • human behavior
  • circumstances
  • justice system
  • intent
  • remorse
  • socio-economic background
  • rehabilitate offenders
  • recidivism rates
  • flexible punishment systems
  • inconsistencies
  • perceived injustices
  • public trust
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