Death Penalty, a Punishment for Who?

Death penalty, a punishment for who?

Death penalty is actively used in over twenty countries around the world, even though it is strongly criticized by many big human rights organizations like the united nations, amnesty and most other countries. The total amount of deaths as a result of legal executions was 676 people in 2011 and that is probably just a fraction of the true number because many countries have chosen to keep their data secret. A death penalty means that a convicted person pays for his crime with his life. In most countries the method of execution are lethal injection, gas chamber and during war execution by fire squad. Executions are a way of the past and I think that it is time to show the world that we have evolved from using such meaningless actions in a modern society. Things need to change and therefore we have to inform everyone why.

To start with there is a fact that not many people know about and that is that a death penalty actually is more expensive then a lifetime in prison. I have to admit that this might sound a little confusing at first, how can a needle stick, a guillotine or just a simple bullet cost more than about fifty years of food, shelter and clean water. The answer is that a death sentence is so much more then just a ten minutes execution. A trial of this degree of significance particularly expensive. First: The standard that is needed if everything should go according to the human rights so advanced that some countries have to import this service. Secondly: there is a long time gap between the judgement and the implementation, ma?ny years can pass by with the convicted in a death row where he needs food and protection. Finally: the security around everything has to be tightened up tremendously to prevent threats. This makes the price tag a lot bigger than for a normal procedure

Something else that many are unaware of is that although executions permanently prevents