"The death penalty is murder and should be abolished", do you agree?

The death sentence, in Singapore, is meted up by the judge when a person has committed murder to another person. This is a move made by the legislature in Singapore, to punish the murderer fairly, so as to give an accountability to the murdered family.

The rationale is, in my opinion, the old saying, "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth". But to think it this way, is it absolutely necessary to defy nature, and take another person's life away, because he killed another person?

Some people might actually feel strongly for or against the death sentence, but, I, as an individual, is caught between both these opinions. I feel that the death sentence is necessary to deter the murder offence from occuring again. But then again, if the death sentence is supposed to deter, it is not very useful, because there are still so many murder cases happening everyday, all around the world. I feel that the death sentence is, in a sense, the taking away of life of a person. Whatever the rationale, I feel that it is a type of murder, just that it is legalised murder. Taking life artificially away, is rebelling against nature, when we should be preserving every form of life in mother nature. In a naturalist point of view, I think the death sentence should be abolished.

So to abolish or not to abolish? That is the question.

In my opinion, if the death sentence were to be abolished, many people would take it to be the condoning of murders in today's society. The number of murders might increase, because the murderers would not have to pay for their crimes with their lives. They might deem it more worthwhile to kill someone because of person hatred, and not pay for it with an equal price.

As a personal believer of "what goes around comes around", I feel that the death sentence is the murderer's just deserts for committing the murder crime, and should not be abolished, so as to serve as a warning to other people contemplating the murder crime, and to serve as accountability for the murdered' family.