Pro Death Penalty
It is no doubt that death penalty for multiple murders, serial killers and violent murder cases should remain. There is no other alternative. Life in jail can never be adequate punishment for those who take other peoples’ life. Some individuals constantly put forward the idea that taking other peoples lives is wrong, whatsoever, but at the same time they don’t want to punish murderers. These people (murderers) cannot be reformed. They are merely evil, disrespects life and should be eliminated. They will never appreciate any second chance extended to them i.e. an opportunity to repent and turn a new leaf. They just commit the same offence if released. In fact, a life sentence is licensing them to kill while in jail: after all nothing more can happen to them. If they kill while in prison what else can we do to them? If we can’t put them to death then they are beyond further punishment.
Cost issues in death penalty
As compared to life imprisonment, death penalty is less expensive. Prisoners serving a life sentence are always known to be very violent. These people are very chaotic and mostly direct their anger to fellow inmates and also to the prison guards. The violence is normally destructive; a thing that increases prison operational costs, which already incorporates clothing, food, shelter, facility maintenance, and staffing. Had they been executed such increased costs would be avoided and the funds directed to other development projects in a country. Thus, capital punishment can be considered to be more successful in crime prevention than life imprisonment since it is a more effective restraint, it effectively incapacitates and it is quite economical. Loosing human life is a tragedy. However, the death of an innocent person is more tragic than the state executing anyone facing murder charges (Roger, 2004, p.34).
Ethical issues in death penalty
Let’s look at the ethical perspective of the death penalty; we realize it is ethical for these people to face the hanging noose because this will create some relief to the relatives of the aggrieved party who may have been murdered or left totally incapacitated by the action of the sentenced criminal.
It would be unfair for the judicial system to allow a murderer or rapist to continue living while the aggrieved party continues to live in suffering with the knowledge that is enemy is still a life. This knowledge will result to continued mental anguish to the injured party or his relatives.
It is unethical and immoral for the government to spend government resources in supporting a person convicted for capital offence which calls for a death penalty. It will be unfair to use the taxpayers’ money to pay for food and shelter for such a person. If this criminal and villain are hanged then this money can be used for more productive things in the economy.
Having the knowledge that human being learns behavior through reinforcement; death penalty will lead to reduced crime rate in the society. The precedent of death penalty will create a reinforcement of ethical behaviors in the society (David & Craig, 2008, p.241).
The human dignity supports death penalty; this is considering anger and trust place in the society and how the action of criminals undermines the basic tenets of a community. We punish criminals in order to prevent others from becoming criminals.
Death penalty will also provide retribution to the law abiding citizens’. This is because individuals get angry when they witness a crime and for law to control that anger is by punishing the criminal who has committed that crime. For the community anger to be controlled an individual who commits a capital offence deserves a death penalty.
Social issues in death penalty
Putting the importance of morality in the society we realize that death penalty can be able to solve some social disorders in the society. This is supported by the fact that some inhuman actions need to be eliminated completely from the society. Examples of these behaviors are those committed by capital crime offenders. The action of murder and rape should be terminated for the community to be socially healthy (Hugo, 1997. p .84).
In order to reduce inhuman crimes within the society capital offenders deserves a death penalty .This is because people will get relief that the person who was a threat for their survival has been eliminated. This will deter other people from engaging in such crimes and this will result to a healthy society.
Death penalty is socially justified due the possibility of these criminals coming back to the society incase of things like natural catastrophes or political unrest happening. This will rejoin the criminals back to the society which can cause big harm to the other citizens. This shows that these criminal deservers death to prevent such eventualities happening.
If the government continues to harbor n the capital criminal offenders in our cells there is possibility of escalated crimes in the society. This can be supported by the move the human right organizations are taking, whereby a criminal who is in jail enjoys almost all the privileges of a normal citizen in the country. This portrays that people will not fear to do any crime because they are sure that they will enjoy their comfort in the cells.
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