Should The Death Penalty Be ABOLISHED or RETAINED?
By
Yan Chunshuang Deng Mingda Dong Qiushi Lv Chade Yu Yang
Class0907301 School Science
Harbin Institude of Technology
May 23rd,2010
Abstract
The People's Republic of China is the world's executions than any other country, during which inevitably will bring a lot of injustice, and all of us want to see the second \E\so we wrote this paper is intended to cause national attention to the State in punishing serious criminals could take better and more effective measures, not just a simple implementation of the death penalty, so as to reduce damage caused by the death penalty to the families and also to the prisoners a chance of rehabilitation, unnecessary under certain circumstances to reduce further crime. We had 50 different professional questionnaires, accordingly, we should abolish the death penalty that does not depend on human will, different backgrounds should be a different decision, we need to continuously improve laws, to avoid the occurrence of injustice, which requires our courts to sentence the death penalty is more prudent and cautious.
Key words
the death penalty injustice background prisoners abolish
Introduction①
The death penalty, also known as capital punishment, executions,
the world's most ancient one sentence, that executioner based on the legal powers to end the life of a prisoner. Deprived of life suffer the penalty of this approach are usually the offenders who commit serious crimes in the local. Although this \crime\is defined often controversial, but retain the death penalty in the current state of, in general, \killing\
As early as the beginning of civilization have the death penalty,
but so far the majority of countries have abolished the death penalty. Still retain the death penalty are China, the United States, Japan, Singapore and other 75 countries, developed countries, only the United States and Japan still retain the death penalty. At present, most European countries (only exception of Belarus) have abolished the death penalty, on the one hand is based on the religious background of these countries, according to \Old Testament ? Creation\the human committed unpardonable crimes several times, but have received God amnesty, hope people can change their minds, so the human can not jeopardize the creation of the Father's authority over life and death, God gave man pleaded guilty in return for the chance to turn over; the other is based on democracy, rule of law, humanitarian development.
Sentenced to death are known as \
usually before execution, will be sent to a specific cell for solitary confinement. On the one hand, the judiciary recognized the need for the death penalty, and to make preparations for the execution; the other hand, can allow death to have a final opportunity to appeal. According to Amnesty International's statistics and other information:
88 States and Bermuda, Hong Kong, Macau, Niue, Turks and
Caicos Islands and other areas are not the death penalty for any crime.
10 countries and COK only for exceptional crimes have the death
penalty, no death penalty for ordinary crimes.
24 countries have the death penalty for ordinary crimes and 10
years, has not executed any person, or if the death penalty does not make international commitments (such as Russia).
75 States and China Taiwan have the death penalty for ordinary
crimes.
According to other statistics:
The world's 99 countries and territories retain the death
penalty mainly shooting, hanging, beheading, electrocution, gas, stoning, injected with 86 countries executed by hanging in 77 countries only China People's Republic and the United States the death penalty by injection.
( from Baidu Encyclopedia )
Participants
Deng Mingda, Dong Qiushi, Lv Chade, Yan Chunshuang, Yu Yang
Instrument:
Questionnaire Survey
Related information
②
Nie Shubin miscarriage of justice the murderers to death for the former prefer to give the deceased Xi Yuan
At 6:38 p.m. on May 10, 2010 China Network
Southern Weekend reporter Zhao Ling from the bottom of Hebei
After 2 years and has been without Kuxun of Nie Shubin case
judgments in April this year appeared suddenly mysterious. -The so-called \year, after April the High Court to appeal to the Hebei reason is not Procuratorate v. the rape of a crime health murder, resulting in innocent people (Nie Shubin) wronged. Although the High Court of Hebei has been inadmissible, but the mother said, according to Nie, the Supreme Court has accepted their complaint before the country's Hebei Nie Shubin was