The Death Penalty

“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” All of us makes a mistake once in our lives, because
we’re only human. While some of us commits a crime not because they are immoral, but because they
are squeezed by their poverty. But I believe we always have a choice in our life, it’s up to us to make the
right decision and face the consequences of our actions.
The death penalty has been a controversial and very debatable issue for years. And our president
Rodrigo Duterte has regained consciousness to this matter as a capital punishment in our country.
For the supporting this death penalty, it is clear that this form of capital punishment is not only proper
for severe cases when criminals have committed unconceivable crimes, it is a necessity. As we see in the
news, people are slaying lives of other innocent people, even children are victims of this uncontrolled
terror. The point is not to give the death penalty so freely to every criminal who murders a person, but
only those very extreme and severe cases where the person committed the crime as an intension to kill
or someone who got pleasure form murdering the victims. The death penalty should only be given after
much investigation and a certainty of who the criminal is in order to prevent executions of innocent
people. However it is certain that this punishment is necessary for several reasons. For starts one of the
biggest upsides of the death penalty is that once the criminal is executed the families of the victim gets
closure and feel safer for that person is no longer a threat to them. Also this is a way of the legal system
to show potential criminals that capital punishment will be issued, and perhaps stopping people from
committing certain crimes out of fear of being prosecuted to the point their life will be taken away. In
only unwanted cases then, the death penalty reasonable as a punishment.

Judd Luis Amaguin

Grade 12-ABM3
August 3, 2017