ENTRY #22 - "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT" ARGUMENTS and COUNTERARGUMENTS

“Death penalty”

ARGUMENTS Against death penalty

COUNTERARGUMENTS

Societies who use the death penalty don´t have lower crime rates      It is not a deterrent against the crimes      Death penalty targets the economically disadvantaged      It is irreversible and results in the death of innocents      It abuses two of our most basic human rights:” Everyone has the right to live” and “no one should be subject to torture”      Death penalty tortures physically, by the brutal nature of execution  and psychologically by forcing individuals to wait to be  killed

The punishment should fit the crime In some societies death penalty reduces crime rates If the judicial system works as it should, wealthy criminals, as well as poor criminals, should be committed to death penalty equally  I