Tuesday, May 8, 2007

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We live in a wild world. It is getting more and more criminals. At least one crime can be heard about a day. Why is it? Who can be blamed for so many criminals? Some of the people say: society is to blame. According to them a wicked society breeds evil. When you listen to this kind of talk, it makes you wonder why we aren’t all criminals. In these days we think a lot about the reasons but we have forgotten about how to deter the robbers, killers and terrorists. You must refer to criminals politely as people who need some treatment, not as wicked people, although they have killed many adults, children, sisters, brothers, grandparents...

How to punish the criminals? What to do to stop them? We have done away with the harsh laws of the nineteenth century, and we don’t use barbaric practices like hanging, garrotting or killing by electric chairs. Although the capital punishment made the robber think twice before pulling the trigger, it has been suspended in most countries. Instead of capital punishment criminals are sentenced to ‘life sentence’. We all know that it doesn’t mean what it says. After ten years or so because of good conduct, the most villain is free to return to the society where they will live very comfortably thanks to the proceeds of their crimes, or they will go on committing offences until they are caught again. So we are in danger.

How should protect ourselves from these violent determined people? Whether suspending of the capital punishment was a good idea or not? According to the opinions in connection with this question we can divide people into two groups. One of them says: suspension of capital punishment is senseless. The others think: it has been provide many times that punishment with harsh laws never lead to increase crime. It is also true that capital punishment protected the most vulnerable members of society, because the criminal couldn’t get away with murder, and couldn’t go on killing innocent people. The answer of those against capital punishment is: people in favour of capital punishment are motivated only by desire for revenge and relation. What’s wrong with it? Can’t be it understood ? - say people who are familiar with capital punishment. They are sympathetic with people who want to take a revenge on their relatives’ death, and people who aren’t happy with the thought of meeting the murder after ten or fifteen years when he is let out from the prison again. There are cases of course when the defendant himself isn’t also the murder. In that cases capital punishment would be too cruel, because there is a risk we kill a person who didn’t commit anything against the law.

The most important thing we all should all think of: people are always willing to liberal views at the expends of others. Did the defenders of crime in their desire for fair-play consult the victims before they suspended capital punishment? Hardly, because all the victims were dead.

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