Death Penalty Pros And Cons

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Death penalty is the sentence of execution for a capital crime, which a capital crime depends of the country, it could be considered from a a murder or a homosexual act. This practice has been used it by hundred of years around the world. Currently, there are 58 countries that still have the death penalty, there are included the most industrialized like USA, Japan, China and Taiwan. For many years death penalty has been a topic for debate where people who support the practice, argument that with this sentence the number of criminals is reduced. In the other had, the opposite side arguments that each person has the right to live. Life is the most value right that a human being can have, no one by any reason can take out the life of a person, …show more content…

Also in the major part of north Africa (Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, Egypt), countries of Asia as China, India, Japan, Vietnam, Singapour, Indonesia. And also even in the American continent, putting in the first place the United States of America. But the death penalty is not only used by countries as a way of legal punishment, also a lot of extremist and terrorist groups use it. But, does really the death penalty has a positive impact? It is shown that the countries that use this system of penalty is supported by most part of the society, and when someone tries to revoke this punishment that person do not receive the popular support. Supporters of the death penalty agree that it is an easy and effective way to deal with the crime, and it is true, also they support other factors as for example the economic, why this one? Because to take care and sustain a criminal in a prison generates a lot of spends for the society and government. So it seems to be positive, and maybe it is, because there are notable benefits, we can take for example Singapour, a promising metropolis with excellent economic levels and natality. A lot of people said that is thanks to the application of the death …show more content…

It doesn’t have sense to deal with a problem as for example murder by the same way, killing. There is a popular quote referred at this “Eye for an eye, and the world will end blinded”. -Mahatma

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