good speech "Death sentence should be Abolished"

                      “DEATH SENTENCE should be Abolished”

Few days ago when I was reading a play “The Other Side” by J.S. Knapp in which a father who is an executioner executes his own murderer son. Honestly I felt very sad.

Ladies and gentleman, I (name) stand before you to whole heartedly support abolishment of death sentence.

My first argument in support of the motion is that we have no right to take the life of any human being. Any person’s death (victim of crime) is heinous and most unfortunate but the faulter’s death has not and cannot bring her back to life. Far from being justice, I think it is revenge in disguise both for the late victim and their bereaved family.

A question for you all who are endorse death penalty : if death penalty is not inhuman, why are our courts trying to find a ‘more humane’ method to kill? Are we humans or blood thirsty barbarians? Several countries have already abolished or are in the process of abolishing death sentence. Statistics show that by 1998, 67 countries had abolished the inhuman sentence and 24 others were not practicing the death penalty law.

Even the Statute of the International Criminal Court has excluded death penalty as punishment for heinous crime. Here we are holding on to the dread rope- the relic of the Raj and ruthless regimes in the ancient times.

The essential fault of death sentence is that it is irrevocable. Mistakes can be rectified, death cannot. You see mistakes are inevitable in all systems of justice, however scrupulous the process and however honest the participants.

In crux I would like to say that as we are developing as a society, we should move away from barbaric practices.  Punitive justice is vital but death penalty is not. Only God can give life. Let us not try to be God. Therefore, I whole-heartedly appeal that Death Sentence should be abolished and abolished immediately.

Thank you!