death penalty essay

            Did you know that about half of the world carries the death penalty and the other half does not use capital punishment? The death penalty, or a.k.a. capital punishment, is the result or consequence for a serious criminal offense or felony such as murder. The death penalty is both a good and a bad procedure because it saves and protects peoples' lives, while it also kills innocent victims.

            One of the reasons why the death penalty is a good process is because it enforces and establish security for people. The death penalty is used as a fatal warning to intimidate killers everywhere that carries out the death penalty. Without the death penalty, a killer may either escape or get released from prison, and they will have another chance to kill other people. Not only does the death penalty serve as a retribution to the killer by shooting the poor victim in the head, cutting in the throat, or stabbing in the heart, but this also protects other people, including guards and other prisoners in the same prison as the killer.

            One of the reasons why the death penalty is bad is because this can also kill innocent people. Sometimes a person may be wrongfully blamed for the murder and may be put to death, even without the slightest glimpse of evidence to prove that the wrongfully convicted victim is innocent. If the authorities later realize that the convicted victim is innocent they now have a debt of a dead life, instead of only waiting to get more evidence to prove something. If they do wait for more evidence to prove something, they may release the person from prison if he or she is innocent, but they cannot release them from the grave. Because of this new procedure, there are now 130 people who were convicted but they are now released, and only 4 were executed but later found out they were innocent.

            In some countries, people may be harshly executed and sometimes people may be mentally ill. For example, if a person is traumatized by a bad childhood or other negative cause, these may be the psychological factors for some of the murders caused, while other murder cases were actually intentional without a mental problem. There is absolutely no excuse for killing people so the mentally ill should get imprisoned for life rather than getting executed because some of them may not be able to recognize what they did because of their disease, while some killers do deserve to die over what they did to the poor victims and they will have to suffer and learn how it is to die like the victims. Some countries also have some kind of unusual or inhuman punishments such as torturing, beheading, or cutting someone to death, and sometimes these punishments may be too rough. Sometimes, people who commit a serious crime that doesn't kill a life may be executed without getting a second chance to realize what they did. 

            Throughout history to today, about 4000 people are sentenced to capital punishment and are now dead. The death penalty is both good and bad depending on the circumstance. For example, if a person steals an expensive car or uses an illegal drug, they don't deserve to die because these crimes do not cost any lives, but if they keep repeating these serious offenses, they should be imprisoned for life. If a person intentionally kills another person while commiting robbery or some other crime, they take away a life, and they do deserve to die. The death penalty should still be used only less severe and more controlled.