Punishments are Useless...

The state doesn’t have the enough power or right to apply the death penalty, there is always a limit that the government cannot trespass. Taking the life of someone who had committed a crime would not be ethical and it would not help at all to society. If the death penalty is applied to someone who had committed a very serious crime, death would be an easy way out because he that way he wouldn’t regret doing it. Physical or any king of punishment would be useless to this type of persons because they would try to escape from that punishment and without any type of humiliation. In a case in which for example a serious killer had killed a lot of people and he didn’t regret it, his death wouldn’t mean anything to him because he would not have any type o suffering. Punishments would just lead to an evil or immoral action making that the death penalty unethical. The best way to solve this type of problems is by teaching this people the correct virtues and the rules of politeness. By teaching these virtues, people would have a sense of humiliation and maybe regret what he did, therefore become a good person. Imagine for example a situation in which you are the criminal and the judge has order the death penalty, you may not care and you will die without any shame but imagine if you were to receive some classes about ethics and why the crime you committed was not correct. After thinking about what you did in the past it would feel ashamed. Also, if you wouldn’t like the death penalty applied to you in any case, why would you use it on others? Remember: “To know your own faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue”-Kongfuzi(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius#Politics)