ESPINOZA, DAENIELLE AUDREY M.

BSA 2
ETHICS 4:00 – 5:30 PM WTh

“To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, it is not justice.” - Archbishop
Desmond Tutu.
Human life is important. A portion of those against the death penalty accept that
human life is important to such an extent that even the most noticeably awful killers ought
not be denied of the value of their lives. Everybody has an unavoidable human right to life,
even the individuals who submit murder; condemning an individual to death and executing
those disregards that right.
In other countries, death penalty has been used for a long time as an approach to
punish those liable ones. According to researches as to the effect of death penalty in other
countries, death penalty has cost their justice system millions. Other than the cost, it abuses
our human rights and repudiates the honest individuals. Death penalty isn't compelling at
decreasing wrongdoing. Our general public isn't any more secure and doesn't discourage
individuals from overstepping the law. There are a wide range of alternatives in our system to
battle wrongdoing, yet death penalty is not one of them.
Death penalty assumed that it keep others from murdering yet it doesn't. As indicated
by Death Penalty Information Center, the top scholarly criminological social orders based in
Washington, D.C, United States, stated that 88% of these specialists dismissed the thought
that death penalty goes about as an impediment to kill. Fear of death penalty has little impact
on individuals submitting murder. The normal individual doesn't stroll outside and says, "I
figure I will kill today". Nobody makes killing their first idea when they go out. It never
crosses the individuals mind: in the event that they slaughter an individual, they will get
capital punishment. Individuals are as yet executing and it has not hindered the quantity of
homicide cases in this country. On the off chance that death penalty is communicating
something specific, sadly for sure, nobody will tuning in to the message.
Second, death penalty cost more for an execution versus life in jail. In United States,
it burns through millions to execute detainees as opposed to leaving them in jail. Their nation
is having a spending emergency yet it appear as though they have a great many dollars for
death penalty. As per Death Penalty Information Center, California spends it cost $232.7
million or almost 11 billion pesos every year. A detainee can go through this existence
without the chance for further appeal cost $90,000 or almost 4 million pesos every year per
prisoner. They spend a colossal sum for a system that has little impact on wrongdoing.
Third, death penalty has executed individuals who are not blameworthy. In the event
that we proceed with the death punishment, not guilty individuals will die. As per Death
Penalty Information Center, since 1973, more than 130 individuals have been discharged
from death row with proof of their guiltlessness. From 2000-2007, there has been a normal of
5 exemptions for every year, and these are based in United States, how much more could it be
if it were to be happen here in the Philippines wherein justice is selective only to the rich and
high ones. The issue with death penalty is that guiltless individuals is being sentenced to
death. As for our system, it commits errors and don't generally have the proof when
sentencing individuals. Numerous detainees invest years serving energy for a wrongdoing
they didn't do. There is no equity for them or their families.
Death penalty is cutthroat to people and a merciless discipline. We state don't
execute, yet we want to do likewise. A structure where a human life is being taken by
execution is coldblooded. Numerous detainees change while they are in jail. Lawbreakers
have carried out some unspeakable violations, yet they don't have the right to have their life
to end. As the statement goes, “we cannot teach that killing is wrong by killing”, especially
for the issue of the execution of innocent persons being a problem for the retribution
argument because if there is a serious risk of executing the innocent then one of the key
principles of retribution that people should get what they deserve will be violated by the
implementation of the death penalty.
Death penalty is not one of the alternatives in our system to battle wrongdoing.
Killing will not lessen the killers in this country, thus, it just adds up to the numbers of
murderers. Death penalty is never been good, nor better for this country.