CAMBRIDGE IELTS 2-TEST 3-WRITING TASK 2

CAMBRIDGE IELTS 2-TEST 3-WRITING TASK 2
You should write at least 250 words. You should use your own ideas, knowledge and experience and support your argument with examples and relevance evidence.
Without capital punishment (the death penalty) our lives are less secured and crimes of violence increase. Capital punishment is essential to control violence in society. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

Argument for the death penalty:
There is an opinion that if there is no capital punishment, our lives would become less secured and violence might increase and it is essential to control violence in society. I totally agree with it for a range of reasons. Firstly, capital punishment is the best answer to murder. The justice system basically attempt to mete out punishment that fits the crime. Severe crimes result in imprisonment. If murder is the willful deprivation of a victim’s right to life, then the justice system’s willful deprivation of the criminal’s right to the same. Without capital punishment, it could be argued that the justice system makes no provision in response to the crime of murder, and thus provides no justice for the victims. Secondly, capital punishment is the ultimate warning. Nevertheless, if would-be criminals know undoubtfully that they will be put to death should they murder with premeditation, very many of them are much less inclined to commit murder. Whether or not would-be criminals are wary of committing the worst crime is an important and probably impossible. Murder stills happens very frequently. So some criminals disregarded this warning for various reasons. But the fact does remain that many criminals who ride the fence on committing murder ultimately decide to spare the victim’s life. In a larger sense, capital punishment is the ultimate warning against all crimes. If the criminal knows that the system justice will not stop at putting him to death, the system appears more draconian to him. Hence he is less inclined to break and enter. He may have no intention of killing anyone in the process of robbing them, but is much more apprehensive about the possibility if he knows he will be executed. Thus, there is a better chance that he will not break and enter in the first place.
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Argument against the death penalty:
There is an opinion that if there is no capital punishment, our lives would become less secured and violence might increase and it is essential to control violence in society. I totally disagree with it for a ranges of reasons. Firstly, prison is hell on earth. Most prisoners consider each other to be in the same predicament and treat each other quite well in general. But they are still in prison and despair about their lack of freedom. Capital punishment is an unnecessary threat. Secondly, Capital punishment is hypocritical. It is strange that a nation would denounce the practice of murder by committing the very same act. By doing so, we’re essentially championing the right to life by taking it from others. True-as a whole, we are not murders, and understandably refuse to be placed in the same category as someone like a murder. If the goal of any punishment is to teach us those things we should not do, then the justice system should more adequately teach the criminality of killing by refusing to partake in it. Thirdly, Capital punishment does not dissuade. If the foreknowledge of any punishment is meant to dissuade the criminal from committing the crime, why do people still murder others? Capital punishment does not appear to be doing its job; it does not seem to be changing every criminal’s mind about killing innocent people. If it does not dissuade, then it serves no purpose. The warning of life in prison without parole must equally dissuade criminals. Lastly, capital punishment teaches the condemned nothing. What is the purpose of punishment? We take our lead from one major source, our parent and they no doubt took their lead from their own parents. When the child tries some crazy acrobatic move off a piece of furniture and hurt himself, his parents might prank him to be sure that remembers never to do it again. So when the child grows up, breaks into a home, and steals electrics, he gets caught and goes to prison. His time in prison meant to deprive him of the freedom to go anywhere he wants in the world, and to do what he wants when he wants. This is the punishment, and most people do learn from it. In general, no wants to go back. But if that child grows up and murders someone for their wallet or just for fun, and they are in turn put to death, they are taught precisely nothing, because they are no longer alive to learn from it. We cannot rehabilitate a person by killing him or her.

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