Capital punishment

When the guilty is from within
-Metallica – The strugle within

Rivers of ink has been written about capital punishment. This is just a drop in the ocean. In this lines I pretend to make a pause to think about one of the arguments given in favour of this kind of punishment that I have read many times. I think that I can argument this, without the need of using the statistics that gives me the reason, just by using our thinking.

They say that capital punishment deters people to commit crimes.

Imagine that we are a man that is going to rob a shop, it isn't punished with the capital, we can assume the risk, but a shooting took place and in the middle of the confusion, you kill someone, it wasn't your intention, but that's the way the things has happened. Now you're life is in a crossroads, is a homicide, they can charge you as murder, if they catch you, they probably are going to execute you. What are you going to do?

a.- You give in to the authorities because is the right thing, and you act like you believe the system works and if they execute you is because you deserve it. So, in that moment, a person how used to live in a world aside the system has changed his mind and started to believe in it.
b.- You run away, and if necessary you throw away anyone who tries to catch you.
In the end, if the catch you, you're the dead, so this way at least you have a chance to star over a new life somewhere.

I suppose that if we want to have the more opportunities to survive we will choose the second option. As a result of this choice, it's inevitable that more victims will be produced.

This is just simplifying and in the reality things aren't just like that, but it is sure that the most important thing it's that they don't catch you.

I find interesting that, in the countries with capital punishment, they highlight with surprise and reproval that criminals offer resistance to be arrested. Is logic, don't you think? It is absurd acting saying: "Please, come to kill me with all the weight of the law, thank you."

Rage Against The Machine – Killing in the Name
Metallica – Ride The Lightning