Without capital punishment (the death penalty) our lives are less secure
and crimes of violence increase. Capital punishment in essential to control
violence in society.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
Model Answer:
Before talking about the essential role of death penalty, you have to think
about the meaning, and the purpose, of any kind of punishment. If you consider
that the purpose is to prevent the guilty from being nasty again, you can be
seduced by an argumentation in favour of the suppression of capital punishment.
But you have to think about another aspect of the problem: a punishment is also
useful to impress people, to make them fear the law. In fact, let’s take the
example of a young misfit, which has grown in a violent atmosphere, influenced
by older delinquents, etc … He lives in the streets, he’s got no aim but to
survive. This is the kind of person who could possibly kill someone for money,
or even for fun … Why would he fear prison? Life would be easier for him
there. In addition, in many cases, when you behave normally, you can benefit
from penalty reductions. This young misfit needs to be impressed, he needs to
know that the law is a frontier. When you cross it, you can lose your life. That
is why capital punishment helps keeping a distance between robbery and murder.
If you abolish it, you suppress the difference between these two types of crime,
which are completely different.
But there is also a limit to define: even if death penalty is unavoidable,
it would be a crime to apply it to inadequate cases. If there is no
premeditation or past facts which can justify such a punishment, it is far too
strict to apply death penalty. That is why the lawmakers have to establish
precisely the context in which capital punishment car be pronounced. That is the
price to pay to limit violence without using excessive violence.
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