Capital punishment

There is a national debate whether capital punishment should be abolished in our

country. As far as my opinion is concerned, l am totally against the death penalty for
several reasons.
The first reason is that every man dies naturally sooner or later and that is why it is
absurd to employ death as a punishment. From a logical point of view it is not, in fact,
any punishment since death is a natural consequence of birth; it is a law to which all
human beings are submitted. The only thing that matters here is time.
From the ethical point of view capital punishment is inhumane. It is so
because a udge, an e!ecutioner and all the other people directly or indirectly
involved in bringing about a verdict often have doubts as to whether they did the
right thing and this weighs on their conscience to the end of their lives. "ometimes
they suffer even more than the criminals and it should not be so. #hy should man
ta$e part in such a cruel practice as depriving someone of his life% "o many people
die every day of cancer, AI&", or heart attac$s, so many are $illed in accidents that
we should not add to the list of the dead by inflicting capital punishment.
#hat is more, it has not been proved that the death penalty intensifies the
disinclination to commit crimes and, therefore, it cannot be regarded as a maor
deterrent. In fact, capital punishment has never protected anyone.
Another $ey issue is whether the death penalty is appropriate for the crime
committed. In my opinion a criminal should rather e!piate his deed by wor$ing very
hard to the end of his life. "ometimes a life'sentence is a harsher punishment than
death. (istory also $nows hundreds of cases of criminals who changed for the better
and we can only feel sorry for those condemned to death that were not given any
chance to improve.
It is easy to say) *(e deserves his punishment*. "ociety seems to be very
severe on criminals. (owever, people do not always reali+e that they are themselves
to be blamed because on one hand they cannot eliminate such social inustices which
lead to crime as overcrowding, penury or bro$en homes and on the other hand they
are too liberal in treating criminals as heroes and glorifying them in the mass media.
Another argument for abolishing the death penalty comes from the fact that
such practices as hanging or electric chairs seem to be barbaric in the enlightened and
civili+ed twentieth century.
Finally, human life is of outstanding value and no man has the right to deprive
another man of this value.