Question

Capital punishment is a very controversial issue around the world. Many countries that once supported the death penalty now find it to be cruel and unusual punishment. What are your thoughts? Do you support the use of the death penalty as a fair punishment for criminals that commit terrible crimes or is it too cruel? Using five sentences or more, give your opinion and defend your answer by using facts or examples.

Answer 1

I do not support the use of the death penalty. If we punish someone who, for example, committed murder by killing them, how are we any better? Murder is murder, no matter what the circumstances are.

Besides that, there have been many cases when people got sentenced to death for crimes they didn't commit. Unlike other sentences, the death sentence can't be reversed. If they got sentenced to life in jail instead, they could've gotten released once the proof of their innocence was found. But with the death penalty that is not a possibility. Murder of an innocent person in such circumstances is no better than the murder someone gets sentenced to death for. And in those cases, no one gets punished for the mistake that cost someone else their life.