death sentence: WEEK 206

Capital punishment (the death sentence) - For or against? Debate

It is a very strong topic and I will try to be honest I am against the death penalty life is the most precious thing that a living being has and I believe that no one has the right to take anyone's life, but the state tells us that it is wrong to kill a human being that it is wrong to take revenge by our own hand, but ironically they are doing that is being hypocritical they teach us that we should not kill killing blood for blood they want a more correct good and just satiety, but they do not teach to fix things with violence and revenge and so they want crimes to decrease, but the death penalty has proven to be a failure because it does not decrease murders and crimes keep increasing more and more we are supposed to applaud them like seals why not better yet murderer and serial rapists are taken away the second most important thing after life freedom that is to make them understand that life is sacred and the one who takes the life of another person will live in life imprisonment.

But as a mother, if someone hurts some of my children, I can also hurt them and show my darker side, that is why I do not judge the parents and relatives of the victims who ask for the death penalty because living something like that would be like dying, alone. Imagining that something like this would happen to my children overwhelms me because my beliefs and my upbringing would clash with my feelings. That is why I greatly admire those people who have had victims in their families and act with enviable serenity and rationality, and even manage to forgive them. In the human being there is a destructive and creative power. We are biological beings thrown into a world with the need to live, but it is undeniable that we feel attracted to evil. There are even people who feel an almost unhealthy attraction, such as criminals.

Let's imagine that tomorrow we kill all the serial killers and rapists in the world, both the prisoners and those on the streets really believe that this is the solution, they believe that only then will there be no more murders and rapes and crimes, the only way to reduce so many crimes is to attack the problem from the root by investing more in schools to provide emotional education and reduce inequalities because in my opinion any crime is a collective failure because parents, school and friends have failed, we have to give them a greater opportunity. People have to learning empathy, knowing from a young age that if you harm your fellow man, beyond every belief, you first do it to yourself and sooner or later it will be paid for, with interest.