There is an increasing number of serious crimes committed each year. While some people say that the best way would be to use the death penalty as a deterrent, many say that other measures would be needed. Discuss both sides and opine. WRITING TASK-2 I IELTS

There is an increasing number of serious crimes committed each year. While some people say that the best way would be to use the death penalty as a deterrent, many say that other measures would be needed. Discuss both sides and opine.

SAMPLE ANSWER : The cases of serious offences are increasing ever year owing to lacks in the legal system. However, there are predominantly two contrasting views regarding imposing punishments, where a section of society vehemently deems that death penalty is the only punishment for such heinous crimes while some people emphasize that other measures should be taken to deal with such criminals.

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Apparently, various reasons make a section of people advocate that the death penalty is most appropriate for serious crimes such as murder and rape because if constitution would spare such sinners it may encourage many evil-minded people to do the same in future and it will be a mockery of the legal system. Secondly, if a cruel person had killed or raped another person he also has no right to live. Therefore, such criminals must be sentenced to death and majority of civilians espouse this because they do not want to live a life full of apprehensions. For instance, In December 2013, in India a girl was murdered, then the whole country pleaded for capital punishment for the offenders.

On the other hand, some people reckon that others measures could be taken such as lifetime imprisonment or serving in the foster homes for juvenile delinquents due to the fact that sometimes the innocent young people get trapped in such criminal activities without any involvement. Henceforth is such cases the authorities must consider other measures than capital punishment.

Moreover, in some cases where someone gets killed during gang wars where both the parties were equally guilty and the offender had no plan of committing such crime and it happened only due  the heat of the moment or by accident. For instance, In Punjab, India a group of college students started with a minor argue and that went to a major fight and accidentally one of the students was killed but the judge sentenced long term jail to the offenders considering their background was clean.

In my opinion, the death penalty should be the most favored punishment in cases of serious crimes which creates shame on the society so such persons have no right to live on the earth. While the cases where such criminal act was accidental then other measures can be considered too