The Ultimate Consequence of Capital Punishment

At those times, crucifixion, stoning, beheading, burning, or more they were the different forms of death sentence accomplishments, which resulted in the ultimate consequence. In the current societies, the ways have taken a different turn, where lethal gases, injection, hanging, shooting or electrocution are the forms of capital action. However, the issue of capital punishment has stirred controversial storms in the communities, where some people are supporting it while others are against it (Hochkammer 2017). Some of the people have the ideology that the capital punishment is uncivilized and unnecessary forgetting that it plays crucial function concerning the prevention and reduction of crime rates in the societies. Therefore, these differences in ideologies lead to the efforts of trying to justify the presence of death penalty punishments in the judiciary. Why should one deserve to live and yet he or she has caused somebody’s live and torment to the victims’ families? This act is not morally acceptable in any society or nation, and that is the reason why the Indian government executed Yakub Memon, the person who was financing the attack.

However, some of the people are of the opinion that the capital punishment is immoral and follows the footsteps of the lawbreakers. They argue that the murders cause havoc in the societies since they have an urge for blood and death, and by giving them a death penalty is just but a way of satisfying their ambitions. These people fail to understand the forward-looking approach, which states that the punishment focuses on instilling good habits to the future generation whereby the people will be following morally perpendicular directions consisting of zero rape cases, murder issues, and more. Furthermore, the acceptance of capital punishment helps to a greater extent in the prevention and reduction in the crime rates in the societies. The constitution is crucial in any country since it is a way of setting milestones for a nation, for example, to ensure that there are no unwanted activities in the communities.

Therefore, dominantly jeopardizing the constitution leads to the death punishment. For instance, Harris and Klebold murdering fifteen students in Columbine High School were against the law hence they earned themselves the capital penalty. However, some other people oppose these justifications of the punishment stating that it does not reduce the number of crimes where the act itself involves taking the life of another person hence amounting to criminal activity. Furthermore, they claim that the constitution protects the rights of people, which states that everyone has a right to live. There are those crimes like pickpocketing, and the likes, which their concentration is low. For these, the individuals can go to jail for some years where they will engage in rehabilitation, counselling, and more and thus there is a high probability of changing their ways.

On the other hand, there are capital offences, for instance, crime associated with murder, rape, molestation, robbery with violence, and more. People indulging themselves in these cases have low chances of changing, such that if released on parole, they will put the people in danger. Therefore, instead of using the taxpayers’ money in this category, it is better to use the money to improve the health sector and develop the country. They also state that the life of the prosecutor will face tormenting times, which is costly. However, it better to invest in the lives of people who are promising to change to better than those who are destructive and life-risking in nature. In conclusion, the world that we live is full of controversies usually from the different perspectives of the people.

Therefore, whether the constitution of a country upholds the death penalty, the different inclination of views from different people from varying backgrounds will still bring the controversy around the matter. Therefore, according to my opinion, the urge to reduce the capital offences in our communities, maintain desirable moral ways in our societies, and better the lives of promising people in jail outshine the counterarguments that a death penalty is a form of non-civilization and unnecessary.  Capital Punishment. Routledge, 2017. McCafferty, James A.  Capital punishment. Routledge, 2017.