It has been a long journey for governments how to deal with crimes and their respective punishments. From using guillotines and electric cars to life sentences and community service. The question still remains unanswered. What is a befitting punishment for a serious crime?
In my idea, there are two main approaches to answer this question. Primarily a punishment is enforced by the law to prevent further crimes. Death sentence used to be the ultimate punishment for this matter. It was a big scary message to potential criminals and also a farewell to an actual one. However we still encounter a cold-blooded murderer every now and again. So we must strongly doubt the effectiveness of the death penalty as it seems that nothing, even the fatal blade of a guillotine, is enough to stop a man from implementing his cruel intentions.
This brings us to the second influential factor: justice and morality. The whole reason governments or religions or any kind of moral system exists, is to answer the hunger for justice we all have in our nature. Morality rules that homicide is wrong and logic decides that the just penalty is also homicide. But as societies evolved, we all became aware that crime cannot diminish unless we change our ways; that peace is the path towards justice.
To sum up the arguments, the death penalty is neither effective nor moral. The rate of executions has dropped dramatically in this century, but there are still countries that continue to execute their criminals based on religious laws. Hopefully we will soon live in a world that governments invest in education and health care systems rather than barbaric executions to fight crimes.
It has been a long journey for
governments
how to deal with
crimes
and their respective
punishments
. From using guillotines and electric cars to life sentences and community service. The question
still
remains unanswered. What is a befitting
punishment
for a serious crime?
In my
idea
, there are two main approaches to answer this question.
Primarily
a
punishment
is enforced
by the law to
prevent
further
crimes
. Death sentence
used
to be the ultimate
punishment
for this matter. It was a
big
scary message to potential criminals and
also
a farewell to an actual one.
However
we
still
encounter a
cold
-blooded murderer every
now
and again.
So
we
must
strongly
doubt the effectiveness of the death penalty as it seems that nothing, even the fatal blade of a guillotine, is
enough
to
stop
a
man
from implementing his cruel intentions.
This brings us to the second influential factor: justice and morality. The whole reason
governments
or religions or any kind of moral system exists, is to answer the hunger for justice we all have in our nature. Morality
rules
that homicide is
wrong
and logic decides that the
just
penalty is
also
homicide.
But
as societies evolved, we all became aware that
crime
cannot diminish unless we
change
our ways; that peace is the path towards justice.
To sum up the arguments, the death penalty is neither effective nor moral. The rate of executions has dropped
dramatically
in this century,
but
there are
still
countries that continue to execute their criminals based on religious laws.
Hopefully
we will
soon
live
in a world that
governments
invest in education and health care systems
rather
than barbaric executions to fight
crimes
.