In the Name of Justice Mar 20, 2011 In the Name of Justice To be or not to be, it's really a question when it comes to the death penalty. Ever since the death penalty was first established as far back as the 1800 B.C. in Babylon,the dispute about it has been endless all over the world. Whether the death penalty should be abolished has continually been a debatable question. Supporters argue that the death penalty should be abolished from law as it is so cruel and inhumane. Depriving criminals of their right to live, in fact, is an illegal action because it violates several content about protecting citizens' life rights. Further,we should not kill one again after victims were harmed by the offenders, or there will be no difference between us, the kind people, and the evils. Anyway, many countries have already abolished the death penalty completely or for some non-violent crimes. However, I think, at least for now, we need the death penalty in China. The purpose of our entire criminal justice system is to protect the rights of life, liberty, and property for all its citizens. To do this, the punishment for crime must be harsh enough to punish those who have commited serious crimes and to deter potential criminals, according to the basic "an eye for an eye" justice. It is a punishment that truly makes a criminal pay for his crime, stops the criminal from committing it again, and deters other criminals from committing the same crime. Another reason why i support the death penalty is quite realistic, for the death penalty is much more efficient than spending millions of society’s tax to garantee their prison stay, especially for China. After all,nobody can undertake the responsibility that these criminals get on the streets again and do harms to more innocent victims, if some of them would be released only after a few decades. The death penalty actually saves lives. In terms of humanism, the death penalty may be less suffering than prison life, when many countries use Intravenous injection as the way to execute it. And the death penalty is also an exercise of a state's power and authority. As an old saying goes, Life is indeed valuable, love is even more ; for the sake of freedom, both are expendable. So, if guilty people should not be punished with death ,how come we have the right to sentence them into prison and restrict their freedom?