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Capital punishment is defined by Webster as, “the legal infliction of death as a penalty for violating criminal law” (Webster’s Third New International Dictionary and Seven Language Dictionary Vol, 1993), which is the area of law which deals with offences committed against society as a whole. In the past, capital punishment was accomplished by the methods of hanging those who had committed capital offenses such as murder of an authority figure, or premeditated murder. ... Capital Punishment must not be reinstated in Canada as it is an unjust penalty.
This essay will clearly demonstrate that capital punishment violates the most basic human rights of Canadian citizens contained in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Canadian Bill of Rights, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ... Finally it will show that with capital punishment, there is the possibility that an innocent person can be executed for a crime they did not commit and this is totally unacceptable.
The reinstatement of capital punishment is unconstitutional because it directly violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Canadian Bill of Rights, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Canada is a country that recognizes the fundamental freedoms and rights that it guarantees to its citizens. ... Capital punishment violates section seven of the Charters which state “ Everyone has he right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principals of fundamental justice” (The Charter of Rights and Freedoms. ... Nobody deserves to be put to death as a form of punishment, regardless of how grotesque or sinful an act he or she has performed. ...
Capital punishment also violates section twelve of the charter which states that “Everyone has the rights not to be subjected to any cruel and unusual treatment or punishment. ... Secondly, capital punishment is cruel because the victim would often become decapitated due to slow strangulation as a result of the scaffold being too high or low. ... The following extract from the UN Human rights in Article three and five state the violation of rights:
“Article 3
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person
Article 5
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”(Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2002)
Reinstating capital punishment would again violate the ‘right to life’ and the right from being ‘subjected to cruel and unusual treatment or punishment’. The process in which the hanging is fulfilled is classified as a cruel and unusual punishment. ... The humanist depiction of our nation from the world would be shattered if capital punishment was to be reinstated. ...
Capital punishment does not deter people from committing crimes. ... The death penalty has no impact in deterring which in essential making it ineffectual:
“An extensive death penalty study, using multiple means of measurement that measured the impact of capital punishment in three distinct and different ways could find no evidence that the death penalty have a greater deterrent effect than life imprisonment” ( Espejo, Roman, 2003,58).
Approximate Word count = 2343
Approximate Pages = 9.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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