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Capital Punishment: Position Paper

Introduction

It is often among people to think of a society that people are free to have their free will with no legal or moral limitations. However, these are the thoughts and the road map to a society full of capital offenses. People would act in a manner that would imply the adversities of free will. There would be absolutely no respect for humanity. Crimes against mankind are therefore punishable according to the law of the society, but the severity or the magnitude of the punishment is with respect to the weight of the offense done. There are some offenses that are lightly punished, while others call for a bigger punishment. Among the bigger punishment is the capital punishment or death penalty, which is the state-sanctioned killing meted on a person having done capital offenses like murder or rape, among others (Cheng, 73).  Capital punishment holds a lot of controversies on its legality and morality. Some people hold to the argument that capital punishment is illegal and is morally wrong, and should be abolished, while others argue for it to be retained. In the united states, the states hold a different stand of the case of capital punishment, with 27 states for it while 23 states termed it as illegal and morally not right (Cheng, 74).  This paper argues in support of the abolition of the death penalty; capital punishment is not morally right, and at the same time, it is not constitutional and therefore should not be given space in our society.

Pro Arguments

The first and the most important argument is that the death penalty curtails the right to life which is a fundamental right to everyone.  Capital punishment involves taking the life of another person contrary to the constitution and the ethics of morality. There is no moral obligation to end the life of a person. Even when a criminal commits murder, is it not the responsibility of another person to replicate by ending the life of the criminal. Murder criminals, irrespective of the magnitude that the crime of murder holds, should not be executed. The holy scripts like the Quran and the Bible hold to the law that human life is precious and no one has the right to end it even own. In respect to the Christian, teaching killing is a sin. The death penalty is, therefore, a sin on holy teaching, unlawful constitutionally and against morals; thus, even the worst murder should not be deprived of their life.

Additionally, human nature is that humans are susceptible to making mistakes; this means that it is easy and possible for people to make mistakes and make a mistake to sentence the death penalty mistakenly. Some people have fallen victim to the faulty judicial system (Caruso, 21). It is possible for the jurists to make a mistake and jail the wrong suspect, and the death penalty, once executed, cannot be retrieved like other kinds of punishment.; life is not retractable. According to Amnesty international hold to the fact that capital punishment may legitimize irreversible executions that would mean that many innocent lives may be executed. There are a number...