Death Penalty
Uploaded by sweet-caramel on May 11, 2007
One of the most complicated issues in this world, and issue that seems straightforward yet, its not. What shall you do when someone murders someone else? Should the criminal justice system execute him, or imprison him for the rest of their life? What if he is mentally sick? What if he is a minor? Everyone has a different point of view on the death penalty, based on his or her upbringing, race, and religion. I believe all these factors contribute to the various points of view towards the death penalty. I believe that murderers deserve to die, when they commit a serious crime, unless they are mentally ill.
I grew up learning that the death penalty was given to awful people who have committed hideous crimes. Through religion I learned that capital punishment is a last resort to a serious crime. In Islam, Capital punishment applies in the case of a person who meets any of the following conditions: The apostate, the apostate is one who disbelieves after being a Muslim. A married adulterer, whose punishment is to be stoned to death, a murderer who kills someone deliberately, he is to be killed in retaliation (qisaas) unless the victim's next of kin let him off or agree to accept the diyah (blood money), the Bandits, who wage a war against Allah and His Messengers, and spies.
Based on my beliefs, I was fine with the death penalty. It only makes sense because it is fair. Its karma, you deserve what you get, and what goes around, comes around. Murderers deserve to die if they take someone else life away. They have no right to take anyone’s life away, because they did not give them that life in the first place.
I believe minor should be trailed as adults, and therefore, if they get the death penalty, then that is fair. They committed a serious crime, and therefore their consequences should be equal to that. Since the time we learn what is right and what is wrong, we also know that to kill someone is wrong too. Every little kid in this world knows killing is wrong, and furthermore the basics god given rules like, not to steal or lie etc.
On the other hand, if a person is mentally ill, then they don’t deserve to die. Their illness should...