A Hanging...

1. George show condemnation of capital punishment by describing how bad the superintendent feel when they saw the prisoner gradually die off from the hanging. this was what he wrote" The Indians had gone grey like bad coffee, and one or two of the boyonets were wavering." this show that even the people who hang the criminals do not feel too good when they saw the men die, so why should there be capital punishment?

george owell also wrote" it is curious, but till that moment i had never realised what it maens to destroy a healthy, conscious man. when i saw the prisoner step aside to avoid puddle, i sae the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide." through this descriptions, we can feel that it is wrong to kill a person when he is still so healthy and full of life. this also show strongly that georgr orwell condemns capital punishment.


2. some people argue that it is only right for people who commited serious crime like murder to be undergo capital punishment because these people had killed a lot of people and it is only right for them to pay back with their lives. or else it will not be fair to the innocent victims. also capital punishment will make people fearful and do not dare to commit crime as they do not want to die.

however critics may argue that it is wrong to kill a person even if he had done something that is unforgivable. those people who thinks that murderers should be hanged because they think that he is wrong to kill someone should think twice because they themselves are also thinking of killing someone. nobody in this world have the right to kill others.


3. in the past, i used to think that it is right to hang a murderer as this is what they deserve. it is only right for them to pay back their life to those they have killed. however after watching what ms low showed us on you tube about a criminal being hanged to death, i started to think that capital punishment is too cruel. in the video, i saw that criminal trembling with fear while resisting to be brought to the "place of his death". he knew months before his death on which day and what time he would be dead and couldn't even see what was happening around him, not a second before his death, because he was blind folded. it was torturing, helpless and he could not even fight for his life. before he was caught, he was such a ruthless person who is not afraid of anything and just moment before his death he was trembling so involuntarily... isn't it cruel of the punishment to turn him into that sate? maybe we should give him a life sentence and canning instead.

i think there should not be any circumstances where death penalty can be justified. because if we do not want others to kill, we should not kill others. however if that person is so horrible and peverted and kill people because they enjoy killing, he also deserve to be killed. but for those drug convicts, i think there should be other punishments for them instead of death sentence.