Death Penalty???????I strongly oppose death penalty. It is very cruel and inhumane. Death penalty is a very lethal weapon that the government possesses. So it should be used in the rarest of cases. In fact it should be avoided to the utmost.Morally, socially and economically, the death penalty is a bad public policy. Do we really need to kill in order to punish criminal and protect society? There is a better way. Killing for killing? Killing someone because he has killed someone else is not the right approach. It is only an insane way of taking revenge. There is a better way.It costs six times as much to kill a person as it costs to incarcerate that person for life; all the more rea ...view middle of the document...
org/facts.html]. According to a survey conducted by CUADP (Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty) more than 50% of the people support life without parole for at least 25 years to death penalty. There is always a chance that an innocent person may get death penalty. http://www.cuadp.org/pris/pot.html shows the list of potential cases which were convicted wrongfully. When the criminal kills somebody, it is called a murder. When the government kills the criminal for murder, it is called execution. Why is this difference?Considering the amount of pressure on the government to take action, death penalty becomes a very viable solution for them. But still, this state sanctioned method of eliminating undesirable elements of our society should be strictly prohibited. There is a better way.In the Unites States, Texas has accounted for about half of all the executions in 2002. Throughout the history of United States, the number of executions was at its peak during the period between 1935 and 1940. The graph gradually came down but in the recent past, it is again rising. With over 3,700 prisoners sentenced of death as of January 2002 [amnesty.org], death penalty has now become a major concern with a number of organizations (national and international) raising their voice against it. Another important issue about death penalties is the way the prisoner is executed. Since death penalties cannot be banned in a matter of days, these organizations should at least press on an immediate need for giving peaceful deaths to the prisoners. Electrocution is the last thing one can think of.There is a better way. Death penalty should be abolished.
