Final Draft

Should we oppose to the death penalty?

 The worthless and useless death penalty system should be abolished on Earth with the will of people who strongly oppose to it. We should all think again about the diabolical-(1) and atrocious-(2) murdering system whether to keep it and let it kill priceless human life, or to stand against it and make it stop. There are three reasons why we should oppose to the system. First of all, the idea of reducing major crime rates with maintaining the death penalty is totally wrong. According to the Amnesty International-(A), murder rate of one of the states in America which maintains the death penalty was 17% higher than that of the state which abolished the death penalty. This indicates that maintaining death penalty doesn’t help reducing major crime rates. You can see the indisputable gap between two graphs in the picture on the right. Second, there can be frivolous-(3) misjudge while dealing with the criminal. There are several infamous cases of wrongful execution throughout the world. Laws, judges, systems and justices are all human things. Human can make mistakes. Laws and judges can make mistakes too, but when it comes to the death sentence, it becomes fatal mistakes. What if the person who got killed by the death penalty was not the actual criminal? Who can compensate that? Nobody can. If there is a slight possibility that judges might sentence the criminal wrongly, it’s humanly right to give the man other sentences instead of the death penalty. Final reason is about social impediment. The death penalty is originally generated with the idea of ‘A tooth for a tooth’. However, according to the ‘Psychology of Revenge’ by Michael McCullough-(B), the revenging instinct of human race makes society into a brutal and uncontrolled place, if the upper force like government doesn’t make certain policies for restraining those instincts. It is obvious that, maintaining the death penalty system, foments-(4) negative atmosphere to the society. In conclusion, the death penalty system doesn’t help reducing crimes, might kill somebody innocent by accident and cause dreadful effect in society in long term. For all these reasons, we should stand strongly against the death penalty until it perishes over the world entirely.  

 

words : (1) diabolical : makes sense, but vicious and evil / (2) atrocious : dreadful and brutal / (3) frivolous : thoughtlessly behaving / (4) foment : causing atmosphere

citations : (A) McCaan, E. (2014, March 14). Amnesty International. Retrieved December 8, 2015, from https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/death-penalty/

(B) [‘Psychology of Revenge’ by Michael McCullough] : the book reference

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