Topic: Should capital punishment be abolished?
应该不应该取消死刑？
Sample Essay 样稿
Created by Mr. Jeenn Lee Hsieh
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主题》赞成不取消死刑
结构》四段连贯
内容》支持主题
1.起-- 死刑造成两面争议
2.承-- 赞成取消
3 转--反对取消
4.合-- 不能取消，但须公平审判
英文原作
Âbout capital punishment, two cases may be made. One is made on justice and the nature of a moral community. The second is based on love and the nature of an ideal spiritual community. The question has been debated for centuries. But the controversy remains: to abolish the death penalty or not to abolish it? And under what circumstances?
The rejection of capital punishment is actively voiced by mostly human rights and religious sectors. They recommend "life without parole" as a humane alternative. For them, it is not acceptable to execute a person, the practice being the old-fashioned "an-eye-for-an-eye" principle. A life term should be introduced instead because, they hold, the execution is contrary to humane love for life. The death penalty alone as a judicial measure does little to prevent crimes from taking place. Increasingly, this voice has been gaining votes. As such, at present more than 60 percent of the countries and states, including the European Union, have ruled out the practice.
The defense of capital punishment, on the other hand, has an opposite argument. The death penalty has in the past practiced in virtually every society, serving as a real deterrance to serious crimes. The logic is obvious. It removes the worst criminals from society and should prove much safer for the rest of society than long-term or permanent incanceration. It is self-evident that dead criminals cannot commite any further crimes, either within prisons or after escaping or after being released from it. According to the pro-capital punishment sectors, the execution, better sooner than later, makes economic sense as well because of the huge cost involved in long keeping dangerous criminals in jail.
In my view, capital punishment must be considered a "necessary evil." The death penalty must still apply even in modern society, but in a different manner--the guarantee of a fair and careful trial. Once convicted, however, horrible killers, series rapers, and other dangerous criminals, such as trapped in big-time drug trafficking and trigger-happy gangsters, do not deserve a prolonged life. Of course, it should not be like hanging high the severed head in the market place. Frankly, I always have doubts about any form of "rehabilitative" or "corrective" measure. Only I believe in a proper trial to see justice done. Finally, circumstances matter. It is always advisable to distinguish between really dreadful crimes and those crimes, while still homicide, are much more understandable.
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