The Death Penalty Should Be Reintroduced Into The Australian Legal System

Argumentative Essay on Capital Punishment in Australia Capital punishment is barbaric and inhumane and should not be re-introduced into Australia. Although capital punishment has been abolished, the debate on this topic has never abated. When a particularly heinous crime is committed, this debate arouses strong passions on both sides. Many who advocate the abolition of capital punishment consider the death penalty to be cruel and inhuman, while those who favor of punishment by death see it as a form of just retribution for the gravest of crimes.

Australian society has ultimately rejected the idea of the practice of capital punishment making a return into the Australian law books. However, events such as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the Bali bombings have ensured that the spotlight once again shines on the controversial subject. I am in favour of the practice returning to Australia for heinous crimes such as murder, child molestation, serial rapists, and people who commit acts of animal cruelty. This is because:

After abolition of capital punishment in Australia, the imprisonment is considered as severe penalty. Life imprisonment is imposed mostly in cases of murders after considering the severity and circumstances of crime. Prisoners are to serve long period of their lives in jail with no hope or less hope to be released. The term life imprisonment changes jurisdiction to jurisdiction or state to state, as it can be sentence until death, twenty years or indeterminate period. The uncertainty here becomes more cruel. A few dies in prison committing suicide or natural death in prisons due to stressful and unnatural environment of prison. A long term isolation also changes attitude and behaviour in such a way that these prisoners become incapable to survive in normal society. Offenders who serve long time in prisons are also discriminated in our society whether in relation to social activities in community or employment matters. In Australia aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are victims of such discrimination and it can be the reason behind their growing population in Australian prisons. Thus life time sentencing has become an inhumane penalty and subject of important consideration at international level. Even harsh conditions results in higher rates of

No one has been executed in Australia since the 2nd of February in 1967. The last incident of execution was when a man named Ronald Ryan was found guilty of shooting a prison guard in an attempt to escape the jail. He was hung in Melbourne. Queensland put an end to the death penalty in 1922. Tasmania did the same in 1968, The federal government ended the death penalty in 1973. Some countries still have the death penalty, the top three countries with the highest execution rate are: China, United states and Pakistan. In South Australia, forty-four hangings took place in the Adelaide Gaol. The society agreed that the death penalty wasn’t the right way to go so in 1976 the Criminal Law Consolidation Act was modified, changing the death penalty

Since the last execution in Australia in 1967 of Ronald Ryan and the abolition of capital punishment in Australia in 1973 imprisonment has been the only option as a sanction for murder. A survey conducted in 2009 demonstrated that a clear majority of Australians (64%) believed that imprisonment should be the punishment for murder as opposed to 23% stating the death penalty should be used and 13% did not wish to comment. The death penalty is not an effective punishment for all cases and there has not been any solid evidence stating that it is a more effective deterrent than imprisonment. Furthermore capital punishment possesses the risk of executing the innocent, which has happened or almost happened numerous times in the past such as

Once upon a time most advance countries believed in the death penalty among those countries Australia was one of them. This is a barbaric and brutal way to be punished. For example criminals would be hanged put under the firing squad, injected with a lethal injection, be electrocuted or would be in a room with lethal gas. A lot of people under lethal gas actually died by banging their heads against the wall because they would rather die quicker than have a slow excruciating death. But now as time goes on, society has discovered that death does not teach us anything and in some cases it is the easier way out. Murders would rather die than spend a lifetime in prison, it cost more to put someone on the death row than a lifetime in prison. Furthermore what if someone you knew was innocent and was killed for something they did not do. An eye for an eye is not a Christian belief, it is a Jewish belief. Christianity stands firmly against capital Punishment.

Just like children can be damaged by what their parents do, the citizens of a country can be damaged by what they see their country display to its neighbours. Statistics in the past have shown clearly that capital punishment leads to the brutalisation of society, resulting in more murders and in turn a higher crime rate. By witnessing a system with authority take the life of a convicted individual, how is it not assumed that misconceptions of moral guidelines will be crossed. People are not fond of authority and reasons such as the death penalty give the citizens reason to react. For example, in the USA it is widely known that individual states have their own laws. Some states choose to abide by the death penalty whilst others have abolished the law just like Australia did in 1984. However, statistics can justify [FBI Uniform Crime Report, Aka from Death Penalty Information Centre] that states in the United States of America that still carry out executions have a higher murder rates than those who abolished the law. By brutalising the law, society is brutalised and taken down with

“Capital punishment has been an out-dated practice since the last hanging of Ronald Ryan in 1967, Ryan being the last of 114 people to be executed within Australia. The death penalty has been a part of Australia’s legal system since British settlements, also within the Aboriginal customary laws. Although throughout time crimes have plausibly stricken since the death penalty was applied to what was seen as “petty” crimes such as sheep stealing and burglary, resulting in 80 people hung each year throughout Australia. It was not until the commonwealth introduced the passage of the Death Penalty Abolition Act in 1973 where offences under the law of commonwealth and territories have not applied the death penalty for any transgressions provided in

However, why should we as Australians allow violent criminals to stay on our streets to possibly harm others? The death penalty does not promote the murder is ok. The death penalty should be in our society to teach the younger generation that if you decide that you are going to commit such a terrible crime, e.g. rape and murder; then this is what is at the road for you. Research done by fearof.net, the fear of death is ranked number 12 out of 100 phobias. We can use the fear of death to our advantage, by scaring the younger generation out of murdering another human being; we can finally stop nearly all murders in Australia. The death penalty is not there to teach people that killing is right, it’s there to bring justice for what violent criminals have

Since ancient times, the death penalty has existed in many forms and was carried out strictly to enforce the laws of society. As society grew more complex, many different factors influenced the development of the death penalty, or capital punishment as it has developed into in the United States. Because of this, controversy about whether or not to have the punishment arose, leading to much debate on the topic. The paper will analyze and observe the Capital Punishment and its influence on the economy of United States. Before proceeding, it is important to note that the definition of the capital punishment: a punishment, enforced on the state and federal levels, in which victims are sentenced to death for committing one or crimes deemed worthy of the punishment.

The debate for re-establishment of the death penalty in Australia has been ongoing since the 1973abolishment of capital punishment in Australia. While capital punishment was first abolished in Queensland on the 3rd of July 1922, the last state in Australia was New South Wales to formally abolish the death penalty for all crimes in 1985. Ronald Ryan was the last man executed at Pentridge Prison in Australia. On the 3rd of February 1967, Ryan was hanged after being convicted of the shooting death of a prison officer during a prison escape from Pentridge Prison, Coburg and Victoria in 1965. The death penalty is not an effective punishment for all cases and there has not been any solid evidence stating that it is a more effective

Introduction~ The death penalty has always been one of the most debated issues in Australia. In most countries in the developed world, the death penalty is illegal. I, however believe that the death penalty is an important way of keeping all Australians safe.

In 1973 the Australian parliament passed legislation prohibiting capital punishment in the Death Penalty Abolition Act 1973 (cth)s 4. Before this, Queensland was the first state to abolish the death penalty in 1922. Tasmania was then the second state to follow in 1968. Tasmania so passed the criminal code act 1968, similar to that of Queensland’s chosen legislation. The act provides that, by section 2 that ‘after the commencement of this act, the sentence of punishment by death shall no longer be inflicted’ In respect to crimes committed against the laws of the state since the implementation of this act, criminal rates did not rise and the punishment of life imprisonment has served as an adequate punishment with positive deterrence rates. (Lennan & Williams, 2012).

Capital punishment and the death penalty are government authorized retributions by death. The rulings are known as death sentences, and crimes that can lead to death penalties are referred to as capital offences or crimes for example first degree murder or treason. The most used technique of death penalty is hanging. The performances are carried out in public places, and the people who carry it out combined it with a process of torture. In this paper, I will focus on the issues against death penalties, its role in the criminal justice system, and the differing side of the issue.

The debate regarding the death penalty is an issue that has continued to attract huge controversies in the past few years. Consequently, public opinion about the death penalty has relatively changed in the recent years though this concept has less support unlike mid-1990s. The main reason for the minimal support of the death penalty originates from the fact that its proponents cite similar reasons to those provided by its supporters two decades ago. The major factors that have been provided in support of the death penalty are concerns about the costs of maintaining murderers in prison for life and deterring murderers from involving in more criminal activities. Nonetheless, the opponents of the death penalty argue that it should not be endorsed simply because of the killing of innocent people.