According to a survey

done in 2016 by the National

Development Council, about

88% of people did not

support the abolishment of

the death penalty in Taiwan.

That means, there was a

small amount of people who

wanted to abolish the death

penalty owing to a couple of

concerns. However, in the

past few years, we had only

no more than 5 cases of the

death penalty to be

implemented in Taiwan

because the national policy wanted to reduce the implementation of death penalty and to carry it out more carefully. For this reason, there remains nearly the number of 40 death rows in the prison so far. Furthermore, with these existing factors, more and more complaints rising from the public, thinking that the nonperformance of the implementation about the death penalty will encourage people to commit the crime and also will waste the national resources for raising those criminals. As a result, to achieve the goals of decreasing the number of crime rate and to alleviate people’s concerns in terms of the national economy, we should have the death penalty allowed in our country. 

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        One of the major reasons is that we could effectively see the decrease in the crime rate by having the death penalty. According to one study done by Isaac Ehrlich, an economist in American. It shows that once we conduct a death penalty, we can prevent about 8 persons from being murdering.(TalkEcon, 2015) Since we have the laws to protect our citizens and to punish those who committed the crime, the number of the crime rate can be decreased consequently. When we have something bad in mind, we will think of the laws and the punishments which will come to ourselves simultaneously. On the contrary, if we don’t have the death penalty or we abolish the death penalty in the future, it’s likely that people will consider that committing a crime is nothing and to commit more crimes or to kill people as long as they want. Therefore, we need to have the death penalty to punish those people who committed serious crimes. 

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        Second, based on the consideration of economy, it’s inappropriate for the government to spend money on those criminals who are sentenced to death. Because it costs a lot of money to raise a people for a lifetime even though they are in prison. Moreover, some criminals even kill people randomly just because they are running out of money and want to make a living in the prison. One of the most well-known examples is the random murder, reported by the ETtoday News in 2014. And this case is committed by a murderer, Tseng Wen-chin, who killed a 11-year-old child randomly; instead of having some particular reasons, he just wanted to have a dine in the prison and to keep himself from starving to death. Obviously, if we have our death penalty abolished, it is hard to prevent these kinds of situations from happening in the society again. 

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        On the contrary, some ethics groups might claim that the death penalty will cause some unjust cases appearing which may result in the sacrifice of the innocence lives. However, if we make the judgement more carefully and amend the law to a degree that makes everyone convinced, then there will be no more unjust cases happening again. In other words, rather than the death penalty, the problem of the unjust case is owing to the improper laws and the bureaucracy. Consequently, there is no need to abolish the death penalty; instead, we must allow the death penalty in our country. 

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        To conclude, by having the death penalty allowed, we can solve the problems not only about the crime rates but also for the national economy. Although some concerns such as the unjust cases may arise, we can deal it with by the amendment of laws. As a result, to make our society a more secure place for our citizens, we need to have the death penalty allowed in our country. 

 

 

 

Reference

National Development Council. (2016). 國發會民調：88％反對廢死、84％支持唯一死刑. Retrieved from https://www.storm.mg/article/106711

TalkEcon (2015) 死刑真的有嚇阻力嗎?

Retrieved from https://talkecon.com/capital_punishment/

ETtoday News (2014) 為吃牢飯殺人？　割喉魔曾文欽改口：想被判死刑才弒童Retrieved from: https://www.ettoday.net/news/20140906/398362.htm