Death penalty

Death Penalty Essay

Stop “Civil War” in Brazil – Capital Punishment Now

Every day innocent citizens are sentenced to capital punishment without trial in Brazil. Although social conditions improved a lot in the last decade, this is still one of the most violent countries in the world, with about 50.000 homicides per year. It is practically a civil war rate, but with a tremendous difference: only the criminals have guns. Brazil urges to approve the death penalty because, first, it would free society from monsters and psychopaths, second, it would be economical for the government and the society, and finally, it would prevent further crimes.
Those who are against the Death Penalty may argue that capital punishment will only be applied to minorities, that it does not prevent criminals from raping or murdering people and that people should not “take an eye for an eye”. However, this is not a matter of prevention or revenge or, even worse, of allowing innocents to be punished. It is a matter of protecting society from pathological murderers and rapists. That means not permitting those who, without a shadow of doubt, have committed hideous crimes, to have a chance of hurting another innocent again.
DEATH PENALTY WILL FREE SOCIETY FROM MONSTERS AND PSYCHOPATHS. Brazilian citizens became the gangster’s unarmed targets. That is the reason why it is been said that every day people are sentenced to death penalty without trial in Brazilian streets. Newspapers and TV news show the astonishing reality faced by Brazilian inhabitants. People leave their homes to work or study and never know whether they will manage to return safely or not. As a matter of fact, if they happen to be in the wrong place, at the wrong time, they may be attacked, kidnapped, raped, robbed and/or killed. Generally the criminals are young, under drugs and have no respect neither for their own lives, nor for anyone else’s life. Such disturbed people are not likely to regenerate or redeem after a