Mandatory Death Penalty for Murder

Therefore it’s always better to be safe than sorry. You could always release someone from prison if there was a mistake but you can’t give somebody’s life back. But once a person is executed, the opportunity for him to prove his innocence dies with him. That’s why we should lock him up in prison for the rest of his life: make him feel pain equivalent to the suffering of the victim’s family and friends. the murderer you could be giving him the easy way out because he might rather have a quick, painless death than to spend the rest of his life in prison. If the family and friends of the victim are going to suffer emotionally for the rest of their life, so should the murderer. Death won’t make him suffer; it would only give him a painless end. As long as we have capital punishment, innocent people will be executed, it is unavoidable.

The other reason why the death penalty should be abolished is because death is final; thus it is not acceptable to make mistakes on the matter. There are other reasonable choices such as life without parole. We can’t afford errors and rarely do we have complete proof that a person committed a murder.

By abolishing the death penalty, it does not mean that we will be releasing convicted murderers. So even if innocent people are sentenced to life imprisonment, there is hope that someday someone will be able to prove their innocence.