Prof. Dania Adra
English 203
22 October 2015
Is death penalty a good solution?
In my opinion, killing a man, for any reason, is not
acceptable. First of all, no matter what the criminal actions were, don’t give
the right to another man of deciding his death. Moreover, usually, death
penalty is used against murderers. What did they do? Kill people. What is then
the government trying to teach? Not to kill. How? By killing. This sort of
thinking has, in my opinion, no form of logic. Furthermore, why does the state
do this only for killers? If this sort of punishment is good in any way, why
don’t we rob the thieves? Why don’t we rape the rapists? That doesn’t make any
sense, does it? Then why is it okay when it comes to death? Finally, killing
someone for a crime shouldn’t be allowed for a completely different reason too:
the judges can’t be absolutely sure that the man is guilty. Death isn’t a
reversible thing. What if, 20, 30 years later, we find out the man was
innocent? This happened already a couples of times in history, how could they
fix anything afterwards? What will the family of the now victim think? What will
the people in general think of the whole system if a completely innocent man
has been killed?
On the other hand, I can understand the author point of
view. He believes that “we can only
achieve justice by killing a vicious killer” (Robert Blecker). In a way, we
could say that some people deserve to die because of everything they have done
and the little hope there is in turning those people into the “right side”. He thinks that the punishment should fit the
crime. If someone killed my son, I don’t think I would be happy or feel any
kind of justice if the criminal just goes to jail. I would want to take
revenge, to make things “fair”. “A basic retributive measure -- like for like
or giving a person a taste of his own medicine -- satisfies our deepest
instincts for justice.” (Robert Blecker). It’s also clear that, by instinct,
anyone would want such a thing: “justice”.
Work cited:
Blecker, Robert. “With death penalty, let punishment truly
fit the crime”. CNN. Cnn.com. August
22, 2013. Web. October 22, 2015.
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