With Liberty and Justice for All: Thoughts on the Death Penalty

Freedom is defined as lack of slavery, freedom, not being bound and enslaved by the body. Definition of justice is justice, fairness, moral legitimacy, and finally freedom is another independent word. When the death penalty comes, people are killed every day or sentenced to death for crimes committed. For many people the death penalty sounds cruel and ruthless, but for others it is considered best to kill the massacre.

The death penalty is a form of punishment in which a person convicted of a serious crime is executed according to the provisions of the criminal justice system. The death penalty has existed for thousands of years and has been widely accepted in the United States since the early colonial era. Especially even a person whose constitution was enacted by the fifth amendment implicitly approved it (McCord and Latzer 9). Despite the increasing acceptance of the death penalty as an appropriate punishment for specific crimes such as first-class homicide, there are still people who oppose the death penalty for some reason.

In a fair society, the greatest punishment should be the possibility of regaining life's imprisonment and some freedom. If done properly, this punishment can effectively protect society from criminals like the death penalty. Supporters of the death penalty often insist that certain criminals should be killed to protect the public, as they pose a danger to the surrounding people. Although this discussion makes sense, the same result can be obtained even if lifelong punishment is carried out carefully. When a violent prisoner is housed in the highest security prison in a remote area, their ability to directly harm society disappears. This idea is supported by firm evidence. In April, Slate said the escape from prison had decreased from 14,305 in 1993 to 2,512 in 2008. Considering that the Bureau of Statistics Bureau reported that more than 1.5 million prisoners of prisons were imprisoned in 2009, these figures are very small. Therefore, the death penalty does not need to maintain social security.

One of the most important aspects of the death penalty is that "some criminal acts should be paid by death." This concept of justice is the core reason for defending the death penalty. Criminals pay both to society as a whole and to individual families of victims. Professor Ernesto Van Den Haag wrote that "In order to do justice it is important to punish the right punishment and then punish equality." There are several other reasons why the death penalty should be reserved, but it is most important to give an unparalleled sense of justice to a specific crime.