The Death Penalty: Opportunistic Method

The death penalty: opportunistic method

The death or capital penalty is to cause death to a convicted person by the State as a punishment for committing a crime established in the legislation, and although 141 countries have been achieved that this sentence would abolish, there are still 58 states and territories, betweenthose Asia, Africa, the Middle East and EE. UU. Of the Americas where this degrading and archaic punishment still apply as a form of justice, would this be a double moral act by society?, Demand justice by this means that violates one of the most important human rights such as the right to life, embodied in article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1) affirms: “Every individual has the right to life,to the freedom and security of your person."

A society that allows the fulfillment of this conviction is a society devoid of values, which overflows in indifference and hypocrisy, thus placing it on both sides of the currency, on the one hand people who even march to defend the right to life and on the other Another demand the death of anyone who has acted erroneously, subjecting him to this form of cruel, inhuman and irreversible punish , which is considered a myth, Ana Piquer (2) argues that this is not a solution and does not help to avoid crimes, because there is no evidence that supports it; On the other hand, what is true is that there is no person who deserves death regardless of how serious his crime has been, since carrying out this action would be an act of violence against someone who already violent, thus creating a circle that It would only generate more violence, in the same way to legalize that a person can be killed does not lead to any benefit, only a government agent would be given the attribution of snatching a life and the right to decide on it, making them equally as guilty that he who committed homicide, Amnesty International (3) argues that the death penalty constitutes not only the violation of the right to life, but also the right not to suffer torture, or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or penalties that opposes this type of punishment in all cases without exception, regardless of who is the accused person, of the circumstances of the crime and the execution method.

In addition, this disastrous situation of unjustly condemning an innocent can be presented and once this punishment is carried out there is no turning back, as was the case of George Stanney JR, the youngest person in the USA. UU. Condemned to the death penalty, she was sent to the electric chair with 14 years and 70 years later she was declared innocent, likewise the case of Carlos de Luna, who was accused of murder with 27 years of age and sentenced to die forlethal injection while the real culprit is unpunished;It cannot be avoided that if this type of condemnates were not allowed, they could have stayed alive and in the best case to obtain their freedom when innocent discovered, in this way life was taken not only to them and many other innocent onesbut also those people who were guilty of a crime, without any mercy or remorse, snatching them the opportunity to redeem and start from scratch, without stopping to think that those people were children, brothers, parents and even husbands.