1. Should capital punishment be abolished? Discuss

In many countries today, the death sentence has been abolished from law. However, dose this action help whether to protect the principle human right or to increase the crime rate in country due to sobbing law? Some politicians think that the capital punishment should carry out in term of deterrence and justice maintenance.

Death sentence help people learn from example so that they will not do it. There are many countries apply this capital punishment in their law in order to deterrent their people from doing crime. Statistics has shown that Singapore hanged an unusually large number of 7 murderers with 4 in 1996, 3 in 1997 and only one in 1998 (CapitalPunishmentuk.org. n.d.) From this example, it tends to indicate that the death penalty is a deterrent, but only where execution is a virtual certainty. The death penalty is much more likely to be a deterrent where the crime requires planning and the potential criminal has time to think about the possible consequences. The hardness of prison life is not strong enough to make people feel scare of doing the same crime. In Britain (2010), there have been 71 murders committed by people who have been released after serving "life sentences" in the period between 1965 and 1998 according to Home Office statistics. Some 6,300 people are currently serving sentences of “life in prison” for murder. Figures released in 2009 show that since 1997, 65 prisoners who were released after serving life were convicted of a further crime. People really do not learn a lesson if they do not have a painful lesson or see their “friend’s” consequence.

Capital punishment also helps to show the fairness of principle of human right in society. People have the right to live and to do the things which useful for the society. However, people do not have authority to take away the other lives because of whatever reason. They have to take their responsibility of what they have done. Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister UK 1979 -1990 states that “Personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives of other people forfeit their own right to live. I believe that that death penalty should be used only very rarely, but I believe that no-one should go out certain that no matter how cruel, how vicious, how hideous their murder, they themselves will not suffer the death penalty”. In addition, the criminal should be erased from the society because they are the one who danger the human right stability. If the capital punishment is abolished, all the murders will be jailed in the prison. There are less than 43% of the prisoners who do not do the same crime when they release to the normal life. It is extremely dangerous to the innocent people. Saqib Ali, Democrat State Delegate, Maryland, 2006 to date states that “Capital Punishment is state sponsored murder and then any lesser punishment is a state sponsored murder of Justice…. It is Justice, not Laws that cures the society. And Capital Punishment is the only Justice that suits a murderer”. Moreover, almost developed countries such as USA, together with China and Japan which put principle of human right at the high level still retain the capital punishment for certain crimes. It shows that stating the death to the murderer does not against the human right. This action plays important role in making sure stability of human right.

Therefore, capital punishment should not be abolished. The society will be in chaos if there is not a strict punishment which people can not learn a lesson from or the principle of human right is not fully protected from