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ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING

If the life was given to us, we can't decide to leave it

Plato.

After some murders and tragedies that have involved innocent people (like JooHlios case or the Isabella Nardonis mysterious death), the Death Penalty returns to

divide society opinion, especially because the murderers hardly-ever suffer the

punishment deserved. This debate is hugely hard to get a conclusion considering that

involves religious, ethical and moral aspects. Although lots of people think the capital

penalty is the best solution to sweep the criminals away, the Universal Declaration of

Human Rights says Everyone has the right to life, freedom from violence and personal

safe. Everyone has the duty to support and sustain the life, longevity and liveability of

all.

It is often said that with the death penalty, the murders rate tend to decrease in the

cities and it would inhibit futures crimes. However, the USAs example shows that

deaths legalization is not a way to reduce crimes. In fact, this has not to be the goal

of this controversial subject. The point must be the impunity and privileges which Law

offers to bandits, causing the feeling that crime pays. Obviously, the death penalty

just could inhibit murderers in case of premeditated murder.

Secondly, some part of society argues that with this authorization, public costs related

with jail would be minimized. This argument is partly true, but while the costs are

reduced, the bureaucracy from the judgment until the punishment requires a long

period of time. Moreover, as a discussion about life, economical aspect must be set

aside.

As many people say nobody has the right to take off anothers life . Perhaps it seems

loaded with religious opinion, but only with a spiritualist vision we can make it

hypothesis if theres a meaning to the universe and the life. If we consider the

individual development as a sense to live, killing a person is preventing this

development. The confinement should be faced as an opportunity for the criminal

admitting the mistake, repenting and reforming itself.

In reality, the focus should not be the death penalty, but the inhuman situation of the

national prison system. We have to ask Which is the reason in confining a criminal?.

The prison system has to supply a confinement to renew the person, isolating it

socially in order to avoid that this person commits criminal acts again. Besides, it must

be correctional, causing a change in the person so that she leaves the crime option and

can be useful to society. Through the capital punishment, there is no full awareness of

evil committed.

It is impossible to change a bad person for better dealing it with contempt, as the

national prison system shows. The prisoners inhuman conditions make the jails into

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true schools of crimes, instead of schools of citizenship. They should supply jobs, social

and artistic activities.

In short, who support the death penalty probably, unaware, has this view because of

the regrettable outcome of our prison system. With some reason, lots of people think

the prisoners will be free worse than when they had been arrested. Plainly, the

problems source is the social misery. In the same viewpoint is the low quality of public

education. Reducing these, crimes will tend to fall. Not only does prison system need a

total reform but also the State structure and social awareness in general.

Student: Rmullo Carvalho.

Express Plus III