Kill the Death Penalty.

It is my strong belief that the death penalty should be abolished. I think this problem is very complex problem. When we think about this problem, we have to think about human-rights issue, victim’s suffering and so on. To tell the truth I was for the death penalty. I thought the death penalty is need for our society. Without the death penalty, public safety gets worse. But as I research this problem, I change my mind. Now the countries which abolish the death penalty are gradually increasing. Among advanced country, only Japan and the United States don’t abolish the death penalty. In the United States, laws are different from state to state, so some state abolishes the death penalty. Japan insist on the death penalty prevent crime. Is it true? I don’t think death penalty prevent crime. On the contrary, by abolishing the death penalty, I think crime rate will decrease. So the death penalty should be abolished.

There are some reasons why the death penalty should be abolished. Main reason is, as I said above, to abolish the death penalty will decrease crime rate. For example in West Germany, the death penalty was abolished 1949. After the death penalty was abolished, murder rate was decreasing.
Secondly, the death penalty is inhumane. In the article “Death row, Japanese-style: “Cruel, inhuman and degrading”, Japan’s capital punishment system was accused. The article says death-row inmate can only talk with family and lawyer in short time. Death-row inmate cannot know when I am killed, so death-row inmate has to be scared.
Third, there is possibility of false accusation. In Japan, there are many false accusations. For example, in case of Yamanaka, he got a death penalty in 1975. But 1990, he is found innocent of a crime.

Naturally, there are those who believe that the death penalty should not be abolished. They might tell you, for example, that the death penalty decrease crime rate. Most of us don’t want to die. So we don’t commit serious crime.
Secondly, that is life imprisonment is more inhumane than the death penalty. Criminal have to live in a fenced enclosure for the rest of his life without freedom. So life imprisonment may be more inhumane than the death penalty.
Thirdly, life imprisonment cost a great deal of money. Bathroom, diet, eagle eye and so on. We have to pay tax to care for criminal. Compared to homeless people, criminal may live a good life.

Does the death penalty really prevent crime? I don’t think so. As I said above, in West Germany murder rate was decrease. In addition, in Canada the death penalty was abolished 1976. Murder rate in 1975 was 3, 09 per 100 thousand populations. After the death penalty was abolished, murder rate was 2.41 per 100 thousand populations in 1980. In 2006, murder rate was 1.85 per 100 thousand populations. This date shows to abolish the death penalty decrease murder rate.
Furthermore there is a criminal who want to get the death penalty. Like Masahiro Kanagawa, who do indiscriminant killing. He wants to get the death penalty, so he kills others. If there is not the death penalty, he may not kill others.

What is the most important is the death penalty don’t prevent crime and to abolish the death penalty decrease crime rate. Of course I understand what people who think the death penalty is need. Maybe what they say may be right. But I believe the information that to abolish the death penalty decrease crime rate.


Sources
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(http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/japan/090922/death-row-japanese-style)
(https://m-repo.lib.meiji.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/10291/6169/1/tankidaigakukiyo_59_35.pdf)
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