The contention on whether some criminals should be executed legally or not has appear continuously whenever sensational incidents occur in television or other kinds of media, and so view of opponents and proponents on this matter has always conflicted with each other sharply. In my opinion, capital punishment, especially death penalty must be executed exactly on atrocious criminals if based on the public agreement of society. Because the purpose of enforcing law is to keep person offensing social security from doing again and pursue persistent stability of the community, I suggest two basis for my assertion on the aspect of characteristic of prisoners and symbolistic meaning of law.
First, we ought to understand the trait of personality some cruel criminals commonly have. Generally, The rate of crime recurrence is so high, impling that they don't feel no longer law restricts with their behavior. It is not the result of previous loose punishment that they got, but rather the consequence of their psychological peculiarity, double personality. They act like reflect on what they did seemingly at first, but as soon as released, they conduct daily routine like nothing happened earlier. What is worse, by the reason that some of them never sympathize with other people, they kill person without feeling guilty for their action. This is so-called 'psychopath'. In Korea, the consecutive murder incident committed by 'Kang Ho Soon' for several month ago was typical example proving these disordered disease. So, death penalty should be executed to protect ourselves against possible vicious cirme.
Secondly, we should consider validity of law in more broad prospective with former ground. Rigorous and acute rule makes itself people aware of that their group will be disturbed and turbulent without the regulation. Of course, to some extent, community can be maintained peaceful and settled enough without death penalty. However, as I mentioned above, to people having problem mentally, most of rules haven't meaningful any longer and then the rule loses its function. Hence, extreme mean is needed for displaying mercilessness of law to them under specific criterion. As an example, when comparing one country existing execution with the other country doesn't, it is more obvious that former country has lower frequency several times than latter country in occurrence of inhumanitarian event.
In conclusion, if there are social consensus and legally clear standard on this matter, I truly agree with the execution of death penalty. And to get such things as inclusive agreement and rational foundation for the penalty, we should comprehend feature of the suspects and how law affects whole society. This is why death penalty should be allowed. |