Death Penalty Should Be Abolished?

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Death Penalty Should Be Abolished?

The death sentence has been the most used capital punishment for criminals for several decades. More than seventy percent of countries worldwide advocate for doing away with the death penalty; however, countries like the United States of America are still enforcing the death sentence as a punishment for criminal activities in contrast to other democracies. The death sentence is applied through hanging, lethal injection, firing squad, and the electric. Countries against the punishment argue that life in prison without pardon is a better punishment than killing. It is worth abolishing death punishment mainly because it does not address the root cause of the issue, people can reform their behavior, and it is not applied fairly across the country.

First, the death penalty should be discouraged in all countries worldwide because killing the culprit does not resolve the issue's primary cause under consideration. The primary goal of punishing the wrong does in society is to deter further offense and brutality (Koenig & Rustad, 2011). To minimize the community's crime rate, individuals should consider looking for the primary reasons why such violence occurs. In most cases, criminal activities are fueled by the negligence of housing, mental health, sustainable employment opportunities, provision of primary education, and housing. When such vises are curbed, societies become lively and secure. Citizens and national governments can propel the country and society forward by countering the violence's root cause to create powerful, healthy homes and their society. Undoubtedly, law enforcement staff are aware that death punishment is not the best solution to criminal activities. The criminal rarely considers the consequences of the offenses they did; they would not commit crimes first of all. However, some persons who may think about the implications believe also not possible for them to be captured; hence the death sentence is not a lasting solution.

Second, abolishing the death penalty would merit some people because the punishment is not applied relatively countrywide. In 2016, 20 people throughout the U.S. were served with a death sentence, which marked the lowest four years. A death sentence is drastically declining across the world. According to Kleinstuber, Joy & Mansley (2016), only twenty individuals were subjected to the death sentence in 2019. Just among four states, Missouri, George, Florida, and Texas represented ninety percentage of the death sentence executed in the entire United States of America. Six states have eliminated health punishment in their judicial system, and more other countries have put a prohibition on executions. Generally, only a few nations impose the death penalty in the United States of America. The death punishment decline should enlighten people to focus on the individual selected for harsh retribution. Being judged with the death penalty does not heavily determine by whether you have committed the crime with the highest magnitude, but the scene of the crime like which state in the U.S. Residents of South American are more prone to receive the death penalty than persons in other regions of the nation even when they are convicted with the same felony. One of the claims for which the death punishment is more rampant in the South is that such countries are infamous for...