Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished

張貼日期：Jun 25, 2010 2:1:28 PM

Phoebe Yang

Nowadays everyone in Taiwan is talking about the death penalty. Whether the death penalty should exist or not still has no conclusion. Some people think the death penalty should be abolished, because they think it is inhuman. But some people think the death penalty is the only way to get rid of those terrible killers. In my personal opinion, the death penalty should not be abolished, because I think before the best substitute solution is found, the law should be carried out. I list some viewpoints for not abolishing the death penalty.

The first, some people think the death penalty should be abolished, because the death penalty is just a vengeance to the murderer. But they never put themselves in the position of the victim’s family. If they were the victim’s family members, I believe they would not talk about abolishing the death penalty so easily like now. If the death penalty no longer exists, the victim’s family will feel the fear and sorrow again, because the one who killed their family will stay in this world forever. They will never feel safe. So the death penalty should not be abolished.

The second viewpoint is that people think the death penalty should be abolished, because according to some reports the death penalty can’t lower the crime rate. But on the other hand, abolishing the death penalty doesn’t lower the crime rate either. Many research reports show that the crime rate isn’t directly connected with the law. Many criminals commit a crime because of the financial factor. This weak point doesn’t support the abolishment of the death penalty strongly.

The last viewpoint is the development of Taiwan society isn’t good enough to abolish the death penalty. Taiwan doesn’t reach the standard of a democratic country. People who live in Taiwan need more cognition of how to be a citizen. So in this society the death penalty is still necessary to maintain the public security.

A lot of countries also have the death penalty, and most countries spent over ten years to solve this problem. And I don’t think the death penalty problem can be solved immediately in Taiwan. All that the government can do is to offer a duct of communication and give everyone a chance to discuss this issue rationally. For now the law must go on until the best substitute solution has been found.