Is Death Penalty effective?

By Moria Pabello

Birth brings life; death ends it.

We know we are in control of all of it, but in this case are you actually? Control of your actions maybe—and suddenly you made the wrong one. Comes the time of concern, trouble, worry, a concept you can’t escape only trapped into an unpleasant end, where you must pay for your immoral actions, where the others meet justice—death penalty enters.

There are two ways to see this: A very gruesome death, a painful end to your life that could’ve flourished and change for beyond better, but they say no. A moral way of gaining justice, a life for a life. And we, the bystanders are silenced by lack of empathy and balance; because the only thing we can do is watch what happens, right?

This is embarrassing, there is nothing that I see stands for humanity, we are not created to stay shut, our differences and voices are useless if we don’t speak out our opinions.

Otherwise, if death penalty is the right answer for justice it should have not stopped. We’re allowing it to continue, it’s time to make a decision. But hear this out:

“Since 1973, more than 160 prisoners sent to death row in the USA have later been exonerated or released from death row on grounds of innocence. Others have been executed despite serious doubts about their guilt.”

“Is morally justified when applied in murder especially with aggravating elements. This argument is strongly defended by New York Law School's Professor Robert Blecker, who says that the punishment must be painful in proportion to the crime.”

Life is conundrum of esoterica, but without much research, I found this out:

“there is no credible evidence that the death penalty deters crime more effectively than long terms of imprisonment. States that have death penalty laws do not have lower crime rates or murder rates than states without such laws.”

“Scientists agree, by an overwhelming majority, that the death penalty has no deterrent effect. They felt the same way over ten years ago, and nothing has changed since then. States without the death penalty continue to have significantly lower murder rates than those that retain capital punishment.”

The Capital Punishment’s purpose is “deterrence of heinous crimes”. For others it will be justice. Let’s look at it in an open-minded person of today, the only thing I can feel is sorry: they may be a family of a victim, or a victim itself, but justice should bring peace and not death.

From this we can say that it is reasonable; if it does nothing, if death does nothing but justice—it is selfish for the rest, and it hits us…

Life is unfair. The only thing left is your answer, the wisdom to know, and the courage to take action.