death penalty- for or against?

Death penalty is one punishment that is commonly used in many countries on murderers. It had always being an issue to whether it is a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to death penalty. Personally, I would say yes to it due to a few reasons.

Firstly, death penalty will restrain people from killing. As mentioned by Gary B Becker, mast people are afraid of death and murderers will also try to escape from death penalty. Hence, it is evident that by imposing death penalty, it helps to deter potentials that thought of murder. One, seeing that there is a severe consequence for committing murder, chooses alternatives to solve their problems instead of taking impulsive actions like murder. Thus, death penalty should not be abolished.
Secondly, death penalty acts as a way to mend for the psychological loss of the victim’s close ones. To an outsider, it seems absurd to execute the murderer for what he had committed as it does not help to bring back the dead. However, to the victim’s close ones, there is no other punishment that could bring the same sense of justice that is brought by death penalty. Many still feel that an eye should pay for an eye, thus the execution of the murderer is justifiable. There may be an emotional unbalance in the victim’s close ones if the murderer were given life imprisonment instead as they feel that the punishment the murderer deserve s more than being locked up in the prison for the rest of their life. Hence, death penalty should not be abolished, as it is accountable for the justice for the victim’s close ones.