Capital Punishment should be Banned or Allowed?

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

- Industrialist Henry Ford.

Capital punishment should be banned, because nobody has the right to place judge whether another person lives or not. Right to life is one of the fundamental rights of humanity. You might think that terrorists deserve to be killed because they take lives. But remember what Mahatma Gandhi said, "If the whole world follows the principle of 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth', then everyone on this planet will become toothless.

And blind.

As for those arguments that capital punishment generates fear in criminals and reduces crime rate, they're completely based on conjecture by people who haven't done any research in this topic. There is no credible evidence that the death penalty deters crime more effectively than a prison term. In fact, evidence reveals the opposite. Since abolishing the death penalty in 1976, Canada's murder rate has steadily declined and as of 2016 was at its lowest since 1966. Capital punishment could be the underlying cause for increased rate of crime in India.

Second issue with capital punishment is that you cannot take it back. The death penalty is irreversible. Absolute judgments may lead to people paying for crimes they did not commit. For example, an individual from Texas, USA Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in 2004 for allegedly setting a fire that killed his three daughters. Following his execution, further evidence revealed that Willingham did not set the fire that caused their deaths. But it was merely an accident.

In 2017 two countries " Guinea and Mongolia " abolished the death penalty for ALL crimes.

Today, 106 countries (the majority of the world's states) have turned their backs on the death penalty for good. Those that continue to execute are a tiny minority standing against a wave of opposition.

There are countless arguments for and against the death penalty. In an imperfect world where we can never be sure we have ever got the "worst of the worst" is it ever justified to take a life?

Hello everyone,

Myself Ajay kumar. Today my topic is capital punishment should be banned or not.

In my point of view, it should not be banned because if we banned capital punishment then after doing crime like rape, murder or many big crimes which is too harsh for us will be increases rapidly and we cannot able to reduce it, and if it is not stoped then our country is known for crimes or terrorism which is not good for Indian culture. I think, it should not be banned and by this we can able to reduce big crimes, rape and murder also. By seeing this type of punishment peoples think about 10 times before doing these types of crimes.

Thank you all.

Everyone agrees that crime is bad and we need to stop it. This seems sensible and logical in every way, until we ask the question: Do we need the death penalty to be 'tough' on crime?

According to me Capital Punishment SHOULD be done away with because if there are death penalties, one would think for a thousand times before doing a crime. This will also help in creating a fear factor in the minds of the criminals. The terrorists and rapists should not be allowed to roam freely in the society. People like them should be publicly hanged so that everyone will come to know that violating someone else's rights cannot be tolerated in a DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY like India. I think that capital punishment should be allowed because it creates a lesson in front of the public or criminals that law is made for the public and if we abolish the law by committing the crime it would create a penalty for that person.

On the other hand it also depends upon the crime committed by the criminal. If the crime is heinous in nature like sexual harassment, honor killing you can't spare them by just giving them imprisonment, because it will just encourage others to commit the crime as they will not have the fear of death in their minds. While punishing we should think about the innocent public in general instead of the criminal who did the scandalous crime. Abolishing death penalties will be injustice to the victims who suffered from the heinous acts of the criminals. Death penalty acts as a fear factor to many people who could have turned into a criminal and it is very important in a country like India.

Thank you, and that's all I would like to say.

Hello, everyone.

Truly, everyone has given a great point of views about this. Indeed I think that capital punishment should exist as I think that it's true that morality still relates to the law but morality on the cost of law is not right I think. Some of us argue that "eye for an eye make the whole world blind" but we should remember that we can't apply the theories of an idealist in reality so in case if C.P is not given to a terrorist then it's very dangerous to our economy and faith of the victims will set away from law. Soo I think C.P can be justified but it's also true that in same cases it can be replaced by some other grave punishment as a rapist is not truly entitled for C.P because taking his life in a second is not justice to the victim, but some grave punishment should be given to these type of heinous criminals. But the complete abolition of C.P will reduce the threat of punishment and encourage further crime.

THNKS FR READING PATIENTLY.

Capital Punishment should not be banned.

It supports a strong framework when it comes to striking fear in the minds of criminals. While it is important that this punishment is given for serious crimes like Espionage i.e. spying on the country, hijacking of airplane resulting to death of civilians and treason. It should also be given to criminals who have commited gruesome crimes like sodomony, rape of women, children and young boys.

Crimes like manslaughter, mass-murder, acts of terrorism, acts because of xenophobia towards a group of people, race or religion, people who conspire against our country and anyone who threatens the nation, like trying to take over the government.

But capital punishment is also awarded for crimes like murder during kidnapping, decoity with murder, where if more than five individuals participate in the act and one of them commits murder then all are liable for the crime and it is punsihable by death or even in kidnapping.

These are the offense where one can raise the question whether the liable should be punished by death?

I believe that even with these crimes, it depends on the degree at which the crime has been commited and how to what extent the accomplace was involved in them.

So, capital punsihment is important for the right crime, therefore it should not be banned.

I don't support Capital Punishment. I am aware I am just a thirteen-year-old but listen.

As a kid, I grew up thinking fairy tales were real. I believed in happy endings, I still do. You could all predict the shock in me when I came face to face with reality. There was a time when I was watching television and I came upon a channel that displayed medieval times. They were about to hang people.

I was horrified. It just made me feel so disgusted to even watch it happening. I sooner found out that the man they hung killed somebody.

They hung the man for murder.

But please explain to me, what right do we have to take one's life? Just because he killed someone doesn't give us a good excuse to kill him. Actually, there will NEVER be a good excuse to kill someone.

What does it make us? Killing these criminals? Is it okay just because they too have sinned?

If it is, then doesn't that make us no better than them?

Before you do it, think. Think about the example you are setting. Think, will there really be a difference?

If you killed this criminal, then you are a killer. What this criminal did or signed for doesn't matter. If you killed this criminal. You killed this criminal. You killed someone. You took a human life.

If you didn't, if you gave this criminal a chance to change for the better, then thank you. If you chose not to kill this criminal, there would be at least half a chance he would stay the same. But think about the other half, that he could do better. Think about the example you have set.

To be honest, whatever his crime may be, it should have an equal punishment. You know the statement, 'An eye for an eye'?

That's still not the answer. Did you know, 'An eye for an eye makes the world blind'?

CP isn't the equal punishment of any crime. It is a crime itself.

It's better to switch a light of hope in others than burn fear into them.

Well, according to me.

I would say that capital punishment should not be banned because the rate of crime would be increased and people would feel unsafe in our country. The people would be free to do all that crime which are unacceptable by someone and one important thing is that someone would have to suffer just because of that person who leads with a crime.

So, Capital Punishment should not be banned.

Hello friends,

Although we are not here to decide that the person should live in the society or not or we can say, we are not "GOD". But if we see the epic "The Ramayana" Ram killed Ravan because he kidnapped his wife and misbehaved with her and also he mistreated the people. The Epic shows that Victory of Good over evil which leads that we will get JUSTICE some day. We thought that law will take strict actions against the wrongdoings. I support Capital punishment is allowed in our country because if we give a chance to the criminals it will lead to increasing crimes than before. But it is also true that this will not be justified if we gave the punishment without any pain to them who are doing these heinous crimes. Therefore, Stringent laws should be made and these criminals should be first tortured day by day so that they will repent their evil deeds. And afterward, they should be hanged. As in the case of Acid attacks or Rapes, the victim has to suffer the whole life and to survive with that pain and the humiliation they face lifetime. Rich Criminals released very easily and others are only having rest in the Jail.

If we see the highest rape crimes countries involving Canada, Sweden, Germany, South Africa where the capital punishment has been abolished. Still, the rate of crimes is very high there. Therefore, Abolition of Capital Punishment may not help to eradicate the crimes in our country.

Our Government also spend lots of amount in surviving the criminals. This will affect our economy as well. As these funds can be used to reduce poverty and develop the underdeveloped section of our society.

It seems to be an interesting topic. Well what does this word "Capital Punishment" mean?

Does it mean the final punishment given to a person for the most severe crimes? Well, then is it in our hands. There is above the almighty to read out the final verdict.

Usually the people who have done severe crimes such as rapes, murders, or any other big offence are dealt with capital punishment. I agree that they have done unforgivable offence & should be charged with punishments. But, is death the ultimate solution? No, I don't think so can't they be given a second chance. Some people say that these people should be hanged as it causes less pain. But then, it would be an easy way out for them. What is the use of capital punishment if it does not affect other people. Instead criminals should get a chance to correct themselves. We should help them to correct themselves because by killing these criminals no profit will be gained by the victim's family. Neither would it help to bring back the person to earth again.

By correcting their problems and changing their ideology we have to bring out a change in our society crime is an ideology. It could not be erased as long as we bring about a change in our society. So, it cannot be changed by imposing physical punishments. So, this change should be first brought about at individual level. First of all we should eliminate social evils which degrade our society such as corruption, non-unity among different races, wrong notions, and perhaps the wrong way of carrying out life. In most cases, people due to absence of moral or due to poverty, or because of some ill influence enter into the world of crimes.

Some of them realize about it, but, sometimes it becomes too late for them. By applying capital punishment we are not allowing them correct their mistakes and also not to spread the lesson they have learnt, so that, it would lead to an awakening among people.

No, it should not be banned because there will no fear of punishment and after all, they will repeat the same thing again.