Attention Seeker: People who commit serious offenses can be put to death penalty by the state as a form of punishment against crime.
Thesis Statement
Individuals in a state who commit crime search as murder, treason, espionage, genocide, and crime against humanity are put in a death penalty regardless of its impacts to society and the penalty in the modern world.
II. Body
1. The different types of crimes which can result in death penalty include treason, genocide, crime against humanity and murder
a) Murder; Murder is an act of deliberate killings of human beings to eliminate them from the society.
b) Genocide; Genocide is a substantial killing of a large number of people from a particular affiliation such as ethnicity, religion, race and political group.
c) Treason; Treason is an act of providing assistance to the enemy of the government or betraying the state.
d) Crime against humanity; Crime against humanity is the killing of people in mass for a political reason.
e) Espionage, espionage is the process of the learning and understanding the secrets information of a state through spying.
2. Death penalty has negative impacts in the modern society
a) There are better ways of sentencing those convicted of murder such as life imprisonment.
b) Through death penalty, the lives of innocent people are put at risk
c) The death penalty is costly in the long run because the government will spend a lot of resources while executing the act.
d) In a country where there is poor quality of defense, a large number of people can face death penalty.
e) The dictatorship government can wrongfully apply the death penalty to their opponents to silence them.
III. Conclusion
The individual in a state who commit crime search as murder, treason, espionage, genocide, crime against humanity, and war crimes are put in a death penalty regardless of its impacts to society and the penalty in the modern world. The death penalty has number negative impacts to the society.
