Criminal Punishment

Criminal Punishment

A criminal act is when someone is called an alleged criminal, commits an action. This specific crime should have a tipicity, which is an act that it’s sanctioned in a Criminal Code; antijuricity, which is against the code; and guilty, which is that the suspect should know that what he or she did it’s a crime. This essay will refer about what I think about death penalty, it’s a methods and it consequences.

Capital punishment is the killing of a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offence. I think that this practice is antihuman, even though it’s currently allowed in 58 countries around the world. This punishment it’s against human rights because he or she, the alleged criminal, is still a human being, and it could have been a mistake, and if not then it won’t be “cured” in jail because that is the main goal of it. According to Amnesty International, at least 714 executions were known in the last year. This is a cruel, antihuman and degrading retribution and would turn our society into a violent one, in which “an eye for an eye” it’s not the answer. So I consider it must be eliminated this ancient process.

This antihuman punishment it’s done through different unbelievable ways. Electrocution, in which the criminal is in a chair with his/her head covered; then, he’s electrocuted. An Islamic practice is shooting or stoning so the criminal suffer a lot and this is the consequence of doing the crime that he committed. Decapitate which in the last years a victim of this was Hussein, and it’s also really suffered and degrading because everyone was shouting things about him. And the last one is the lethal injection, which they injected 3 shots, one to get him asleep, the second one is for stop feeling any pain and the last one potassium chloride which actually stops the systems and make your dead. With all of these ways it’s obvious that no matter the one that it’s done, it will kill you and its very denigrate and against human rights, because it’s the life of a person which is going to be taken.

The worst about death penalty is the people that had been executed and they were innocent. As we know, a juridical process tries to find out what happened but off course that there could occurred a fraud or a mistake and the alleged criminal could be punished with this mistake. And the answer of the government is to gave to the family a compensation as if this would replace the life of the victim that have just been taken away.

As a conclusion, I think death penalty it’s not a solution. This just will make a violent society and Human Rights have to be respected worldwide, that some cases are mistakes and in some others innocent people executed and no one should punished you with this sanction, because the judge it’s also a human being and nobody it’s expelled from this.