Live or Die (Composition Two)

Death penalty is widely used in the world to punish people who commit serious crimes. In most places, criminals are executed for murder, espionage, treason, or military justice. In some other countries, people are executed when they commit sexual crimes, such as rape, adultery, incest or sodomy. Moreover, some religious crimes also lead to death penalty like apostasy in Islamic nations. However, is death penalty really a proper way to punish a criminal? Is it fair to allow a judge to decide whether a person should be alive or dead under the circumstance of not knowing the person’s whole life? Furthermore, if a person dies for his country, such as an espionage, who is going to be responsible of his death? Is it he himself, the country or the executioner?
Death might be fearful but there are much more things in the world that are much grimmer than death. To punish a criminal is to let the person regret what he or she had done or understand what he or she did is not right. However, how can a dead person feel regretful? Death penalty can only satisfy the victims’ resentful feelings toward the criminal but it can’t change things that already happened or really solve the problem. Life sentence with no parole will be a proper way to make a person suffer suffered and to reflect upon his or her wrong doing. There are many ways to make the criminals understand the pain, agony, or grief they caused for the victims. Letting them suffer the similar pain will probably be more powerful than death penalty. Death penalty might be the quickest way to get rid of the problem but it is not the best way to solve the problem.
No one has the right to deprive people of their living rights. The murderer did that because he committed a crime. However, if people give the right for people to execute the criminals, people make them murderers and also make them carry the needless guilt. The criminals deserve punishment but people also have the right to live. The murderers took people’s lives, and so, they should be deprived freedom! Using death penalty as a punishment can only create another innocent murderer but changes nothing. Furthermore, if people ask who is going to take the responsibility of the murderer’s death, the judge might work onto another and say it’s the executioner did it and the executioner might say it’s the judge’s decision. To prevent all these unnecessary arguments, death penalty is not the best way to punish the criminals.
Killing people is not legally allowed under the normal circumstances because people should respect lives. The same situations and crimes might have different outcomes when it happened in different countries, such as apostasy in religious world. In the Islamic world, the person will be executed but in different religions, the consequence might not be that serious. Moreover, some people might be innocent but once they died, they have no opportunity to prove it wrong. The fairness of the sentence will be a big problem when it comes to the death penalty. For example, should spies be sentenced to death? Offering the right for the country to kill someone is full of potential problems of justice and fairness and they won’t be solved until we stop the death penalty.
People should respect the lives in the world. Everyone has the right to live because nature grants it. People don’t know if the death penalty can be a good punishment for the criminals because they are already dead. It can only ease the grief and the resentfulness the criminals caused. Also, the responsibilities of the criminal’s lives and the fairness of the judgment are all tough problems. And if we have better ways to punish the criminals and solve all the problems by stopping the death penalty, why should it exist?