Since the middle of the XXth century, many countries abolished the capital punishment, some for all crimes, and others for crimes of common rights while reserving capital punishment in exceptional circumstances. Several great areas are completely free trade zones (Europe, Canada, part of the Southern Africa and Oceania) and some politically assert it like Europe and Canada. Concurrently to that, other countries remain much attached to the capital punishment and continue to apply it in a more or less constant way depending on the individual legislation of the States, like the United States, China (where 80 % of the executions in the world take place) and India and many countries of Asia, as well as the Middle East and parts of North Africa. The debate on capital punishment exists since Antiquity and relates to various aspects, of its role in the penal system, with respect to its application even its abolition. We will discuss capital punishment by opposing the arguments in favor and the arguments in discredit of capital punishment.
[...] not a means of self-defence. However, despite everything these arguments, certain people are for the capital punishment and has them also arguments First of all these partisans present the sorrow of perpetuity like quite as inhuman, indeed is to condemn to live, while knowing that one will never leave, condemned thus becomes an animal by losing the little of humanity who remained to him after his crime, indeed is not to be against the human rights only be for the capital punishment, since perpetuity ridicules the rights and the dignity of the man. [...]
[...] The capital punishment remains, still today, whatever the context, a cruel and unjust punishment, which carries reached in an unacceptable way to the basic rights and the human dignity and whose legal character makes it still more intolerable. It is inadmissible that justice still has, in certain countries, the right to kill and attack the physical integrity and morals of the individual until him to remove the life. To promote the return of the capital punishment, it is to go against the thought of the Churches. It is also contrary with the Gospel. Bibliography Mei Ling Rein. [...]
[...] Capital Punishment: Cruel and Unusual?, Information Plus p. Louis J. Palmer. Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment in the United States, McFarland & Co Inc p. [...]
[...] It is also noticed that the capital punishment does not reduce the rate of criminality. And violence is not the solution against violence thus the capital punishment supports the desires of revenges to the detriment on the reason. A major argument is as the fact of mentioning as the countries of Europe of the fifteen abolished all the capital punishment and among the forty-three countries which adhered to the Council of Europe, forty abolished the death penalty and three are on the way of abolition. [...]
[...] It is also noticed that one often makes of the assassin the victim when one deals with him, when one finds to him excuses (past, education A rather philosophical argument exists also indeed, the committed crimes which make deserve the capital punishment still make it possible to regard the assassin as an human being? The human rights cannot be called upon consequently any more when one speaks about capital punishment. Moreover, one miscarriage of justice is a miscarriage of justice. [...]
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