Death penalty should be abolished. Discuss.

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Death Penalty Should Be Abolished

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DEATH PENALTY SHOULD BE ABOLISHED

Introduction

According to Champion (2007 , death penalty , also known as capital punishment , is the killing of a person through a judicial process . The person being killed is known to have committed a capital offence requiring a capital punishment . Champion further adds that originally capital crimes were punished through cutting off of the offenders head and that though capital punishment is practiced by every society questions have

often risen whether it can be fully justified . Also according to banner (2000 , there are various reasons given in support of capital punishment . These are

Prevention of future similar crimes

According to Champion and Dean (2007 , many people usually feel that the death penalty will prevent criminals from committing similar future crimes since they will be dead and therefore inactive . Also , these people tend to believe that capital punishment acts as a lesson to other criminals who have the intention of committing similar offences According to Claudia , on his web article , he states that this theory has not been proven by any research and is just a feeling residing on the minds of such individuals

It is a form of justice and revenge

There exist those people who feel that killing convicted murderers will satisfy the need for justice or revenge . They feel that there are some crimes that are so bad that killing the offender is the only available solution to such crimes...