Crime And Punishment

Crime and Punishment


     Kenneth Pang

     1/4/96


     Ever since the beginning of modern society, crime and punishment have

been linked together. Depend on the seriousness of the crime, those who break

the laws are punished accordingly. As the amount of homicide  increased in the

passed several years, people are demanding tougher punishments for more murder.

Among them, the most supported one was the reapplying of execution as a mean of

punishment. This notion could help decrease the number of killing, however it

also raised many concerns. In order for execution to be reinstated as a

punishment for murder, questions such as the morality of executing criminals and

the possibility of killing a innocence person must be answered.


     One concern of executing murderers is the morality of the act. First of

all, killing of any kind is wrong. As outlined by laws and guaranteed by the

Canada Charter of Human Right, every human is entitle to live. And under no

circumstances do anyone else have the right to someone else live away.

Extinguishing the life of the murderer is equivalent to murderers killing their

vict
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