Death Penalty

Death Penalty
The death penalty was widely used in ancient times throughout the world; especially, in many countries in Asia. The death penalty began a long times ago, but in ancient times many people around the world began abolishing capital punishment for many reasons but one was because of their religious, and beliefs. I also believe it should be abolished. I abolish it, because I am always asking myself many unanswerable questions, which are not only my concerns, but also those who are against the capital punishment as well.
A big nation such the United States of America probably faces many kinds of cruel crimes. Moreover, everybody wants to stop the crimes; no one wants the bad luck happen to their family; they are looking for solution to stop crimes.
First of all, the death penalty is the ultimate, irreversible denial of human rights. I know and believe that punishment is a good tool against human errors and help them to improve those mistakes, and that is the point of punishment. We are human, and each one of us makes small or big mistakes every day. We have been punished for our fault, which is right, but to put a person to death because of his faults, even if he is a killer, it is not right. We kill them because of their killing, so are we a killer for killing them? On the other hand, should we receive a death penalty for killing them? Yet, killing someone committing murder does not bring back the victim. And the killer has no chance to save themselves and to be improved.
Secondly, capital punishments are usually cruel and inhuman. According to Wikipedia, “Severe historical penalties included breaking wheel, boiling to death, flaying, slow slicing, disembowelment, crucifixion, impalement, crushing (including crushing by elephant), stoning, execution by burning, dismemberment, sawing, decapitation, scaphism, or necklacing.” Is not that too mean to a person? The government always says that they are keeping the rights for humans, but now do they also have the right to kill a person. Do you ever fear that the government becoming that powerful again? They have no right to end a person’s life, because it is against basic human rights. From 1930 to 1967, 3,859 people were executed, according from Bureau of Justice Statistics. From 1982 to 1999, 250 to 350 people were annually sentenced to death.
Last but not least, are the judges always right? Will they not have any mistake in their decisions? One of the most often talked about execution of Jesse Tafero in Florida. “Tafero was convicted along with an accomplice, Sonia Jacobs, of murdering two people in 1976; each was sentenced to death based primarily on the testimony of a third person, Walter Rhodes, who was an accessory to the crime and testified against the pair in exchange for a lighter sentence. Jacobs's death sentence was commuted in 1981. In 1982, Rhodes recanted his testimony and claimed full responsibility for the crime. Despite Rhodes's admission and his own claims of innocence, Tafero was executed in 1990. In 1992 the conviction against Jacobs was quashed and the state subsequently did not have enough evidence to retry her. It has been presumed that, as the same evidence was used against Tafero as against Jacobs, Tafero would have been released as well and still be alive” (Soure: Wikipedia.) Look at this example, could we see who was the killer? Jesse Tafero, Sonia Jacobs, or the judge?
Everyone thinks that a death could scare to stop the crimes. If we do not kill the murder, how could we claim the rights for the person who was killed? And how many people are going to be killed next?
Forgiving is the best. Blood and violence can not do anything. For example, I hit you, and you hit me; your brother tries to hit me for you, so when the cycle will stop? The facts do not change, and we could not help the victims to get their life back by killing the killer. The Government used the death penalty as a solution to stop criminals, but the numbers of crimes does not decrease. For the family who’s loved one is sentenced to death is so difficult for them to receive that fact, and they probably got shocked or get into injury if they feel the case was not fair. “Victims' families often oppose the death penalty such as Bud Welch (whose daughter Julie was killed in the Murrah Building bombing), Andrew Rice (whose brother died in the WTC), and Johnnie Carter (whose 7 year old granddaughter Kathy was murdered) all openly oppose capital punishment” (Source: Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty). Capital punishment does no work well in the job of scaring criminal. The death penalty costs more than life imprisonment. Some case the prisoner could release but they have already had a medicine in their body and stand in row until the day they need to be died. Adding up all the costs, several states are finding that it costs taxpayers from $2 to $5 million per execution, including the special trial and appeals. Life in prison (40 years at $25,000 per year) costs $1 million. Instead of killing them, why do not we keep them in prison? And use that money to improve the police system to avoid the criminals going to prison. Let the criminal serve times in prison, which will remind them of their conscience and will be a punishment to them.