THE DEATH SENTENCE, THE MOST JUST PUNISHMENT

THE DEATH SENTENCE, THE MOST JUST PUNISHMENT

The countries where the death penalty exists think that, for being the most proportional punishment with the committed hurt. In spite of the order that some of they of them defend from the death sentence, there exist factors of diverse nature that do not favor his application.

It is said that the dissuasion is the only aim of the executions. But, really, the death sentence does not intimidate. The criminals know very well that the death is one of the risks of his trade, therefore it does not pull down them. The only persons to whom it frightens the death sentence are the occasional delinquents besides the honest and pacific persons who are afraid to manage to see compromised in a crime that might take them to the death sentence. Edmund Brown, ex-governor of the condition of California, declared after an execution in 1964. “The death sentence has been constituted in a serious failure, because in spite of his mistake and incivility, it neither has protected the innocent one has not even stopped the hand of the criminals ".

The death sentence does not exemplify. If this way it was, in the countries that still that punishment exists, there would not take place the crimes that there are committed. Nothing has demonstrated that there the indexes of violent crimes have diminished. In our country, specialists in criminology conclude in that the assassins, in the main, are persons who believe they won’t live more than 30 years, for them the life does not have any value. In most of the countries where the death penalty is applied, it is prohibited for 18-year-old minors. On this sorrow having legalized in our country, probably the same humanitarian beginning would be kept. But also it is very probable that the organized delinquency would contract minors as assassins to carry out his crimes as already it is doing it and for them there would not be the possibility of sentencing them to death.

It is not a secret that into our country the weight of the law very rarely relapses on sectors on favored. Big bribes, technical smuggling and the whole chain of criminal conducts that they commit members of the privileged class remain without punishment. Numerous delinquents of white neck, who prosper with the complacency of diverse political sectors and of the same government, remain free, whereas the jails are full of rooted out social, without economic power not of another class to press to the system in order that he declares them innocent.

Definitively, the death sentence is a cruel punishment which application stultifies the one who applies it, placing it in the same plane of the delinquents those who him are applied. The approval of the death sentence in our times would mean to return to epochs of barbarism already overcome. If the life is the principal human right, to suppress it is the first violation, and if the State who makes official the crime, aggravates the violation. When a law does not supply the effect by which it is created, the better thing is not to approve her.

Yazzmin Zavala Elizarbe