We are living in a world where people kill each other. To stop the killing we kill people who kill other people. It sounds awful and barbaric but this is how it’s done. Death penalty is needed everywhere because it is the most effective punishment for people who committed a murder, or a serious crime. “Death and Justice” by Edward Koch explains well why capital punishment is needed and what will happen if we don’t have a capital punishment and I strongly agree to the author that death penalty is needed.
I agree with the capital punishment because there is just no way to punish the people who committed the serious murder or other terrible crimes. Some say that they disagree with the capital punishment because it’s too barbaric and there are other ways to punish them enough. I agree on the fact that it’s barbaric and inhumane, but this is needed because if we want to punish the serious killers by just putting them in a jail for their life, what difference would it make? Yes, we are keeping them out of our society and make our life safer but we have to think about what that criminal might think while he/she is in the jail. They might actually enjoy, because they just killed a person and still living in a jail, eating food, and making friends. If we officially say that all the capital punishment is banned from this world, all the criminals out there might think that worst thing could happen by killing someone would be just going to a jail and to keep these people in the prison, government needs money and where do they get the money? It’s from our taxes. I don’t understand why we need to pay taxes to keep the criminals in the prison. They could have taken our family’s life and if that happens, not a lot of people who are victim’s family would have such a forgiving and understanding mind. We want them to commune with themselves and feel sorry for what they have done. But how do we know that they actually feel sorry and sad for what they have done? Putting them in a jail for their life is not enough. They took a precious life away and it can be paid with only with their own life. They have to understand taking somebody’s life is a serious thing. We don’t want to put the idea of killing is not serious by banning the capital punishment and furthermore, in the essay “Death and Justice” by Edward Koch shows some good points why we need death penalty.
2007-02-22
05:23:32
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