Death Penalty
by
Puspita Wening
Death
penalty or capital punishment is a kind of punishment in which the doer is
killed because he/she does serious crimes, such as, terorism, corruption, and
murder that have been proven by the law. In this case, I agree with death
penalty for three reasons, that is becasue, it gives retribution effect for the
doer, it decreases certain capital crimes rate, and the last it saves state’s
outcomes compared to jail punishment. However, there are still some people do
not agree with this punishment realated to human rights and deterrence effect
for the doer.
The
first refusal of death penalty is about human rights. Some people who want to
abolish death penalty, often called Abolitionists, do not agree with death penalty because it is the
abolition of human rights. Human rights is the right which is given by God for
all human beings in the world. It is the fundamental right of a person which
must be protected even for the criminal. When someone is born to the world, he/she
has his fate to live and die. Only God who can take it away. So, human has no
right to take away other people’s life.
Besides,
there is an argument saying that death penalty does not give the deterrence
effect for the doer. This statement raises up because some people think that by
death penalty the doers will not get the suffering from the punishment because
they are just died without feeling the pain of being jailed, or they do not be
given any chance to commiting their sins. They argue that the basic idea of
punishment is to make the criminals realize about their fault, so they will not
do the same crime anymore. In last, they state that this kind of punishment
does not educate the doer to be a better person, and it does not solve the
problem of crime in society.
Those
reasons above are the disagreement about death penalty. However, I think that death penalty is still a proper way
to punish someone who has done the capital crimes.
The
first reason why I agree with death penalty is because it gives retribution
effect for the doer. When the Abolitionists think that death
penalty is the abolition of human rights, I think death penalty is the
justification of the capital punishment which has been done by the doer. In
other word, death penalty is the return of the living right of the victims. It
is like a canon of universe which says that what you do is what you get or what
you take is what you give. It is a retribution point which is the killer must
be killed too in order to give the justice for the victims whom their life has
been taken away. For example, in Arab,
people who kill someone must be killed too. They think that every crime must be
punished equal with what they have done in order to keep peace and justice
among society. That is why we need death penalty to get the justice for the
victims and their family.
After I
mentioned a reason related to the point retribution, the next reason why death
penalty can be legalized is because it
decreases certain capital crimes rate. Criminality can happen because of two
reasons, high opportunity and low punishment. High opportunity means that the
doer has a right moment to do the crimes, like a person who finds a bag without
the onwner will easily take it without regret. That happens because he finds
high opportunity to do it. Beside that, low punishment is also the reason why
people do the crimes. For example, before government of China made the
regulation to punish the corruptors with death penalty, many of the government
workers did corruption. Then, after death penalty was legalized, the corruption
case decrased drastically. This proves that death penalty can decrease
criminality rate.
The last
reason why death penalty is ok, beside retribution effect and hard punishment, is
because it saves state’s outcomes compared to jail punishment. In some ways it
sounds very rude, to talk about the money in this case, but it is also a fact
that a country must still spend the state’s outcomes for jailing the doers. We
must remember that the doer in this case is the one who has the serious crime,
not only the pickpocket or robber. This means that the doers will get the hard
punishment or in other word, they will stay very long time in the jail. Facing
this fact, the state must prepare more fund to full fill their necessities in
the jail, like eating, educating, or clothing. Compared to the death penalty
which only needs a little amount fund of the state, sure that death penalty is
the equitable punishment for the serious criminal and this kind of punishment
will not burden the state.
Thus, I think
that death penalty is the right way to punish the capital criminal because of three
reasons, that is, it gives retribution effect for the doer, it decreases
certain capital crimes rate, and the last it saves state’s outcomes compared to
jail punishment. However, there are still some people do not agree with this
punishment for it carries away the human rights, and it does not educate the
defendant. From the explanation above, I conclude that everything is in the
world has the rule that is what we take is what we give. So, do not hurt
someone if you do not want to be hurt.
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