Arguments and cons, arguments
file the death penalty
Arguments against the death penalty
- Nobody can kill someone, even the state: remove life is to play God.
- Rapists, murderers, ... are mentally ill, yet there are treatments to cure them.
- The death penalty increases the risk of killing an innocent person. Example: Sacco-Vanzetti (*).
- Crime rates not changed with the death penalty reflects a political tyrant.
- Penalty death sustained in dictatorial countries like China.
- Violence does not solve violence or crimes.
- Europe of 15 has abolished the death penalty.
- The 43 countries of Europe, except 3 countries that are on the road to abolition, have abolished the death penalty.
- The death penalty is not reason but revenge.
- The death penalty is equal to torture.
Arguments for the death penalty
- The sentence perpetuity is as inhuman as the death penalty, freedom is withdrawn until death.
- A criminal never concience of what he did and saw no evil.
- A life sentence may recur if it comes out when he is old, better to delete this probability.
- Do you it is not better or a miscarriage of justice conviction of a suspect in the death of other victims. There will always be less sentenced to death by mistake released offenders.
- Why pay for murderers?
- The death penalty is wrong with judicial error. a miscarriage of justice calls into question the reliability of justice and not the death penalty.
- For example.
- The execution of murderers provides families, friends of the victim the satisfaction of not seeing the murderer of their loved ones to continue living: revenge.
- Capital punishment is a means of deterrence vis-à-vis crime. They will think twice before you meditate a crime.
- Capital punishment is condoned by the Bible (Act of retaliation in the societies of Judeo-Christian origin) and the Koran.
- The FN (National Front) is hardly conducive to a port for the killers of children, child molesters and serial killers.
(1986: Request for reinstatement of the death penalty by parliamentarians Frontists. Charles Pasqua and Philippe de Villiers also raise the question of revising the law on this subject.)
- 42% of French wish to restore the death penalty.
miscarriages
Sacco-Vanzetti Case
(*) Sacco-Vanzetti Case: judicial scandal, USA, 1920. They are arrested for two robberies and sentenced in 1920 to the death penalty. Defense committees organized. The bandit Celestino Madeiros, confessed to the robbery but the judge did not like the Italians or the anarchists refused to reopen the case. Vanzetti, Sacco and Madeiros were executed by electric chair.
August 23, 1977, exactly 50 years later, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis absolves the two men, and declares that "all should be dishonor removed their names forever "
The Calas affair
The Calas affair is a court case which took place in the middle of the eighteenth century in Toulouse, made famous by the intervention of Voltaire.
The case is indicative of treatment, at the time a suspect and accused, without the support of a lawyer (replaced by appointed lampoons lampoons), where a hierarchy of evidence (and monitory adminicule) the confidentiality of investigations and proceedings inquisitorial transform the suspect propitiation.
The Calas family lived at 16, rue des Filatiers (now No. 50) in Toulouse. October 13, 1761, the eldest son, Mark Antony, was found hanged in the family shop, to a door. Murder or suicide? Still, the Galas (the father and younger brother John in particular) are accused of murder while they claim to have separated Marc-Antoine for the latter does not undergo the treatment meted out to then committed suicide.
But Calas, a Protestant denomination, except one son, Louis, who converted to Catholicism, continue to practice their faith, and that is enough for the sheriff's David Beaudrigue, convinced by rumors alleging the neighborhood will Marc-Antoine really choose the Catholic religion, requires further investigation and make Jean Calas to submit the question.
Strangulation is inflicted Jean Calas after the verdict of the trial by the Parliament of Toulouse. The latter condemned to death March 10, 1762, unless the ruling is justified. Calas was condemned to execution of the wheel. He underwent the question, a long session of torture, but admit nothing. He protested his innocence. Roue Place Saint-Georges, Jean Calas was strangled and then burned two hours later.
Exiled, another son of Jean Calas, Pierre goes to the city Calvinist Geneva, where he met Voltaire. The philosopher believes first and draws the charge based initially on an incendiary letter Jean Calas. But, convinced of his innocence by Peter, he formed thereafter a pressure group with friends and uses his corrosive irony that justice is done.
order to obtain a retrial, Voltaire published in 1763, the book Treatise on Tolerance on the occasion of the death of Jean Calas while the family gets an interview at Versailles to Louis XV. The sheriff is to say the municipal officer of Toulouse, which had largely contributed to the false mount charges against Calas, was deposed. In 1765, Voltaire manages to review the case and obtain a ruling declaring Calas innocent and rehabilitates his memory.
The trial of Calas was inserted into the causes celebres. It has provided Marie-Joseph Chénier, Jean-Louis Laya and Auguste-Jacques Lemierre d'Argy topic of popular dramas. Athanase Coquerel published in 1858 Jean Calas and his family.
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Look it: Reflections on the death penalty
Victor Hugo, the last day of a condemned, Chapter XXVI, 1829
Extract from the preface to the last day of a condemned man, Victor Hugo
Preview reflections on the guillotine, 1957, Albert Camus
File on the death penalty, arguments and cons arguments. Miscarriages of justice, Calas, Sacco and Vanzetti
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