women have complete freedom and rights and our life style is completely different from the 16 century. So why is it that we an advanced civilization havent abolished completely death penalty which is such an ancient practice? It was on 1948 that the ONU adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which on its 5 th article says: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. And although it doesnt exactly establish the abolishment of death penalty isnt it part of it? Isnt executing someone an inhuman punishment? Most things have changed in humanity since the 1500s when death penalty was on its peak and its purpose was to inflict extreme pain upon the offender and make a public spectacle out of his death, now humanity is more civilized weve developed technology to its fullest, There are several arguments in favor and against death penalty and for this to be objective Id like to mention both sides: People who defend it say capital punishment offers relief to the relatives of the victim, they say that for this crime that is the only penalty that truly makes justice, but it often doesnt give any closure to the victims relatives, it may satisfy thirst for revenge but that is only temporary because later we will realize that our hands are spotted with blood; other people says it prevents criminals to keep committing crimes by escaping out of prison and its cost-saving for the system that has to keep maintaining the offender. On the other side the people against death penalty say the right to the life is basic and fundamental, and capital punishment is only a cruel method that assaults the human dignity, is pure revenge and transforms the judge and prosecutor into executioners also is not applying justice but revenge and its a way to ignore that justice is given by humans that can make mistakes or have an impartial judgment so as to condemned to death a person only by its race, sex, or poverty level Ive heard many times Death penalty is effective to stop crimes and make me realize is the most popular of the pro death penalty arguments, but seeing the numbers is obvious that the crime is not lower in cities that allow death penalty that in the ones that dont and if we dont give importance to that fact or to the statistics that show that only one execution costs taxpayers about $2.3 million, which is about three times the cost of imprisoning someone in a single cell at the highest security level for 40 years which totally contradicts the popular opinion of pro death supporters, if we still dont find that relevant lets just think about the value of life and how we are taking in our hands something that is not our decision, after all who told us we have the right to end a life? Think about how we are supporting a law to kill someone because he or she kill someone and the endless illogic cycle of it. Where is the action? There is always another alternative in this case is true life imprisonment, with no possibility of parole under any circumstances, the principal reason why it is more useful is because people are more frightened to spend their whole life behind bars than be killed instantly In order to abolish death penalty we can join to an organization against it such as NCADP whose role is to find more Americans against it, collect signatures and take it to the senate or begin in your state talk to your neighbors, make them conscious about the relevance of this issue and when elections come be sure to elect the governor with the right proposal to abolish it on your state. Eye for an eyes is not a logical concept for the development of a society on the contrary it only pulls us back to the barbarian times a cruel and uncivilized time. Death penalty makes killers of us all.