(求英语200词作文)对死刑的态度赞同与否?主题是你赞同死刑吗?最好是从3个角度来阐述,比如社会安全,财政负担,人道宗教之类的.如果有更好的角度(也不一定那么严肃),也无妨.

(求英语200词作文)对死刑的态度赞同与否?主题是你赞同死刑吗?最好是从3个角度来阐述,比如社会安全,财政负担,人道宗教之类的.如果有更好的角度(也不一定那么严肃),也无妨.
(求英语200词作文)对死刑的态度赞同与否?
主题是你赞同死刑吗?
最好是从3个角度来阐述,比如社会安全,财政负担,人道宗教之类的.
如果有更好的角度(也不一定那么严肃),也无妨.

(求英语200词作文)对死刑的态度赞同与否?主题是你赞同死刑吗?最好是从3个角度来阐述,比如社会安全,财政负担,人道宗教之类的.如果有更好的角度(也不一定那么严肃),也无妨.
Capital punishment or the death penalty is the act of killing or executing a person,who was found guilty of a serious crime,by the government.The debate whether capital punishment is ethical and justifiable is still widely disputed.
For:
Incapacitation of the criminal.
Capital punishment permanently removes the worst criminals from society and should prove much cheaper and safer for the rest of us than long term or permanent incarceration.It is self evident that dead criminals cannot commit any further crimes,either within prison or after escaping or being released from it.
Cost.
Money is not an inexhaustible commodity and the state may very well better spend our (limited) resources on the old,the young and the sick etc.,rather than on the long term imprisonment of murderers,rapists,etc.
Anti-capital punishment campaigners in the U.S.cite the higher cost of executing someone over life in prison,but this (whilst true for America) has to do with the endless appeals and delays in carrying out death sentences that are allowed under the U.S.legal system where the average time spent on death row is over 11 years.In Britain in the 20th century,the average time in the condemned cell was from 3 to 8 weeks and there was only one appeal.
Retribution.
Execution is a very real punishment rather than some form of "rehabilitative" treatment,the criminal is made to suffer in proportion to the offence.Although whether there is a place in a modern society for the old fashioned principal of "lex talens" (an eye for an eye),is a matter of personal opinion.Retribution is seen by many as an acceptable reason for the death penalty according to my survey results.
Against:
The most important one is the virtual certainty that genuinely innocent people will be executed and that there is no possible way of compensating them for this miscarriage of justice.
There is also another significant but much less realised danger here.The person convicted of the murder may have actually killed the victim and may even admit having done so but does not agree that the killing was murder.Often the only people who know what really happened are the accused and the deceased.It then comes down to the skill of the prosecution and defence lawyers as to whether there will be a conviction for murder or for manslaughter.It is thus highly probable that people are convicted of murder when they should really have only been convicted of manslaughter.
A second reason,that is often overlooked,is the hell the innocent family and friends of criminals must also go through in the time leading up to and during the execution and which will often cause them serious trauma for years afterwards.It is often very difficult for people to come to terms with the fact that their loved one could be guilty of a serious crime and no doubt even more difficult to come to terms with their death in this form.However strongly you may support capital punishment,two wrongs do not make one right.One cannot and should not deny the suffering of the victim's family in a murder case but the suffering of the murderer's family is surely valid too.
It must be remembered that criminals are real people too who have life and with it the capacity to feel pain,fear and the loss of their loved ones,and all the other emotions that the rest of us are capable of feeling.
There is no such thing as a humane method of putting a person to death.Every form of execution causes the prisoner suffering,some methods perhaps cause less than others,but be in no doubt that being executed is a terrifying and gruesome ordeal for the criminal.What is also often overlooked is the extreme mental torture that the criminal suffers in the time leading up to the execution.How would you feel knowing that you were going to die tomorrow morning at 8.00 a.m.
There may be a brutalising effect upon society by carrying out executions - this was apparent in this country during the 17th and 18th centuries when people turned out to enjoy the spectacle of public hanging.They still do today in those countries where executions are carried out in public.It is hard to prove this one way or the other - people stop and look at car crashes but it doesn't make them go and have an accident to see what it is like.It would seem that there is a natural voyeurism in most people.
The death penalty is the bluntest of "blunt instruments," it removes the individual's humanity and with it any chance of rehabilitation and their giving something back to society.In the case of the worst criminals,this may be acceptable but is more questionable in the case of less awful crimes.