I really don’t see death penalty can stop or reduce the heinous crimes. It’s ambitious but to make good the standard, level and quality of our life will most likely cease the crimes. But for now, we need a reform in our justice system to reduce crimes – that is the strict implementation of the laws and credible law enforcers that will lessen it. Traffic violation, robbery or murder – impose the law accordingly. Speed up the process in all honesty and utmost fairness – no bribe and no politics. And whatever the verdict let the sentenced serve the deserved punishment – no special treatment and no parole. It is not our current laws today why we have high crime rate in the country. Our laws are good, they are not just used accordingly. Follow the principle of “the law is the law.
It is not the death penalty that will stop crimes neither reduces it whether it is petty or heinous because as people, no matter what the punishment is, he will do what he thinks should be when at his highest point of anger or obsession. When he is in there, he will not pause for a while and ask himself “What is the punishment of this by the way?” Death penalty doesn’t serve warning to those who will commit heinous crime because of this nature. Might as well, what’s the need of ending the life of the person and why we ourselves need to become criminal? For you to say a person must be killed and to execute actual killing during death penalty, you are no different from the killers so what excepts, separates and differs you from killing a helpless persons? Killing will not kill killings but will make another killers.
In the countries where death penalty is being imposed and the crime rate is low, there are still heinous crimes which just show that death penalty is not instrumental to stop them. Now, saying their low crime rate is another thing but all these are due to their good justice system. Remove death penalty in the picture, they will still have the same low crime rate – it is because it all boils down to their justice system. Back in our old times when Filipinos were afraid of the oppressive Spanish colonization implementing garrote, did it stop the grave crime? Even the display of gruesome firing squad did not stop and scare the perpetrators of gangs during the Marcos times. Up to Erap’s regime, there were heinous crimes committed shortly right after the first lethal injection was executed. It just testifies and proves that capital punishment will not stop the person who is out of sound mind to logically weight things during the act of crime.
The upbringing and environment play big effect in a person. If you were born, raised and exposed in a place surrounded with the elders are ignoring the simple laws, violence, there are those above the laws or they seem to be the law, then you are most likely to break the laws too. To debrief you is not to threaten to kill you but to remove the rotten culture of corrupted system. We don’t need to sow fear to achieve peace and discipline. If we are living in a world of justice, humility and kindness, we will develop a land with respect in mankind and anything.
There was point in time I supported death penalty. That was when I haven’t realized the sanctity of God’s gift of life. Yes, a sinner took away someone’s life but let us not become another sinner in taking another someone’s life.
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