Is capital punishment a good thing?

Firstly, a variety of justifications for and against capital punishment has been advanced. One
common source of disagreement between those supporting and those opposing the death
penalty is whether the death penalty really acts as a deterrent to crime.

On the one hand, ociety has always used punishment to discourage would-be criminals from
unlawful action. Since society has the highest interest in preventing murder, it should use the
strongest punishment available to deter murder, and that is the death penalty. If murderers are
sentenced to death and executed, potential murderers will think twice before killing for fear of
losing their own life. Moreover, strictly speaking, , this punishment is similar to a robber put
in prison is prevented from robbing on the streets. Vicious murderers should be killed to
prevent them from murdering again, either in prison, or in society. So that, the death penalty
helps to prevent future crime.

On the other hand, the problem with the death penalty is that innocent people is killed. The
system makes mistakes and do not always have the evidence when convicting people. Despite
the claim that capital punishment can serve as a way to stop criminals, They should show the
criminals the consequences of their actions.

To conclude, we can say that capital punishment decreases the crime rate, besides, all this type of
punishments are not justifiable and the court and administrative bodies should try to find an
alternative for it.