Essay on death penalty

Currently the issue of capital punishment has been one of the controversial issues in a number of countries including US and the opinion on its application highly relies on the cultural ideology or political ideology. Therefore, this piece of work is going to explore the controversy surrounding the issue of death penalty( Osler et al ,pg. Death penalty has got a number of disadvantages that makes it unfit to be applied as means of punishing wrongdoers in the justice system (Green& Bruce pg,543). This is the reason as to it has been subjected to criticism because it involves taking of life which is deemed to be holy according to religious believes. Some of the reasons as why it should not be applied is because of the following reasons: For instance, once the death penalty has been applied, it can`t be revoked since deprives the suspect life and incase the person happens to be found innocent later, the person can’t be given his life back.