Death Penalty

Death Penalty

Capital punishment, also called death penalty, execution of an offender sentenced to death after conviction by a court of law of a criminal offense.
1. The term death penalty is sometimes used interchangeably with capital punishment, though imposition of the penalty is not always followed by execution (even when it is upheld on appeal), because of the possibility of commutation to life imprisonment.
  1. Capital punishment has long engendered considerable debate about both its morality and its effect on criminal behaviour. Contemporary arguments for and against capital punishment fall under three general headings: moral, utilitarian, and practical.
    1. Practice
      1. Also exist to other factors that preclude the possibility that capital punishment can be fairly applied
      2. opponents maintain that the historical application of capital punishment shows that any attempt to single out certain kinds of crime as deserving of death will inevitably be arbitrary and discriminatory
      3. Those who support capital punishment believe that it is possible to fashion laws and procedures that ensure that only those who are really deserving of death are executed
    2. Utilitarian
      1. Opponents, however, point to research that generally has demonstrated that the death penalty is not a more effective deterrent than the alternative sanction of life or long-term imprisonment.
      2. Supporters of capital punishment also claim that it has a uniquely potent deterrent effect on potentially violent offenders for whom the threat of imprisonment is not a sufficient restraint.
    3. Moral
      1. Opponents of capital punishment, argue that, by legitimizing the very behaviour that the law seeks to repress—killing—capital punishment is counterproductive in the moral message it conveys
      2. Supporters of the death penalty believe that those who commit murder, because they have taken the life of another, have forfeited their own right to life. Furthermore, they believe, capital punishment is a just form of retribution
In Colombia
1. Article 11 of the Colombian Constitution provides that the right to life is inviolable and forbids the use of the death penalty
2. Abolished in 1910 by Constitutional reform. Prohibited by the Colombian Constitution of 1991: "The right to life is inviolable. There will be no death penalty
3. Colombia has introduced the possibility of a lifetime jail sentence for the rape or murder of children
4. The justice system it's very corrupt and also very inefficent. There may be cases where an innocent person is convicted to death unfairly

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