查了一下，發(fā)現(xiàn)death penalty側重刑罰本身，而capital punishment側重于刑罰的執(zhí)行execution

2001年翻寫作文練筆

我的思路：

1.???? 對應第一點：相比于封建時代的絞刑和凌遲，死刑以槍決或者安樂死的形式進行，一點也不野蠻，反而是對重罪犯的仁慈和悲憫。

2.???? 誤殺其實不常見。審訊，庭審再加上完整的證據(jù)鏈條才能定罪和量刑。同時，對于死刑還有review的審核制度，減少錯殺誤殺。在法治社會，有律政專業(yè)人士把關，盡可能使誤殺幾率降低為0

3.???? 死刑體現(xiàn)對生命的尊重。（這個點是之前做資料搜集的時候，羅翔老師的觀點）死刑可以給受害者家屬一定程度上的心理安慰和補償。

4.???? 因為以牙還牙的最樸素的社會心理，簡言之，一個人剝奪了他人寶貴的生命，必須以他自己的生命來抵償，這是體現(xiàn)對受害者生命和罪犯生命的尊重。

5.???? 對于社會大眾，如果重罪犯只被判有期徒刑或者無期徒刑，社會大眾會憤憤不平以及陷入不安。（這讓我想起最近素媛案的原型的那個人出獄之后的場景，一方面社會大眾覺得刑罰不夠，欠缺公平，再者，他有嚴重的重復犯罪前科，是極其危險的人物，給他附近的鄰居帶來困擾和恐慌。）死刑在一定程度上杜絕了犯罪，確保不會有新的受害者。

Capital punishment of the modern society

?? Capital punishment has remained controversial since it presented itself in the human civilization. Some hold that it is barbaric and is very likely to deprive one’s life out of imprudence. To make things worse, the penalty depreciates the human’s life. While others especially the law experts recognize its function in the society. Capital punishment, as far as I am concerned, has its own merits.

First and foremost, the death penalty is far from barbaric. In the modern society, the death sentence is often executed in the form of humanity. In most cases, the convicted felons who would receive the penalty are executed by shooting or by injecting some drug for euthanasia. These two forms are widely dubbed as mercy killing. Compared to the pain that the criminal has caused to the victim and the society, it is groundless to consider the capital punishment barbaric or brutal. Instead, the execution is done with the greatest mercy to the criminals.

Besides, the worry of the innocent that would be killed by mistake is unjustified. Although it is widely believed as one of the demerits of the penalty, a great number of judicial specialists in the legal community are striving to avoid the irretrievable and irredeemable mistakes caused by mistaken execution. Without a careful interrogation, a fair trial and a complete chain of evidence, one would not be executed recklessly. To add to the accuracy and prudence, the review of death sentence is designed to eliminate the wrongful conviction or execution. After a train of judicial process with the involvement of the professionals and elites, a large proportion of wrongful sentences would be eradicated. Hence, it can hardly justify the worry of the innocent killed by mistake in the law-ruled society.

Last but not least, death penalties can never cheapen the value of the invaluable human lives. Rather, it highly values the human life with the execution to the felons. On the one hand, the basic principle of “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” is deep-rooted and prevailing among the populace in the modern civilization. In such cultural context, if there does not exist the death penalty, the offenders would find it difficult to escape the revenge of the victims’ family or friends. More than that, they would be tortured by ceaseless verbal abuse and intimidation. The execution of capital punishment put an end to these tortures of the offenders, reflecting the respect of their life. On the other hand, the victims have suffered or even lost their precious life because of the unforgivable mercilessness of the felons. The latter have to pay a heavy price for their crime and be punished with the capital punishment. The punishment, therefore, manifests the awe and respect for the victim’s life.

Additionally, capital punishment highlights the value of the populace in the modern society. When the criminals are out of the prison, legally or illegally, he or she may threaten the populace into great panic. In the worst-case scenario, if the offenders fail to be rehabilitated in prison, they would ruin the life of many households by committing serious crimes. In this sense, the serial killers would continue to disrupt the social order and bring great emotional insecurity to the public. The predatory recidivists and the rapists would hunt for their new targets, to name but two.

In conclusion, there are opponents of the death sentences. But this penalty is not barbaric and the innocent are scarcely executed by mistake according to a train of effective measures of the criminal judicial system. Moreover, capital punishment has attached great importance to the human life, whose execution highlighting the respect of the life of the victims, felons and the average people. Hence, the capital punishment has its merits to sustain itself in the modern law-ruled civilization. (632 words )