Punishment Is An Effective Deterrent To Crime

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Do you think punishment is an effective deterrent to crime? Which kind of punishment do you think is the most effective? What is your attitude to capital punishment? What do you think about euthanasia? What action would you judge as a crime though it is not classified as one? Day by day discussing crime is becoming more widespread. Nowadays everybody knows a lot of kinds of different punishments and has different opinions on it. In my opinion punishment is an effective deterrent to crime because if an offender or a felon understands what he/she can be sentenced to, maybe he\she won’t commit a crime. it’s logical that if a person knows that he/she can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants to and he/she isn’t going to be charged with this offence, he\she won’t afraid of doing smth bad. But we have laws and no one is above it. Everybody reckons that capital punishment (death penalty) is the most effective. But it isn’t so. The person who is sentenced to capital punishment doesn’t have an opportunity to think about his offence and to think about his life. And it’s also brutal. There’re several ways of execution of this sentence: electric chair, gas chamber, hanging, firing squad, lethal injection. Usually death penalty is the way of punishment for murder, rape, kidnapping, treason. Obviously it’s very harsh punishment and many countries have refused it. I think that the most effective kind of punishment is a life sentence because person’s tortures for his crime aren’t finished but just started. The prisoner shouldn’t be thrown into jail and be forgotten there. He/she also has to be on community service. But there have to be precautions in order to avoid his breaking out of prison. In this topic we have another question which is connected with euthanasia. It’s the act of killing someone painlessly, esp to relieve suffering from an incurable illness. I think
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