DEATH PENALTY
WHEN LIFE GENERATES DEATH (LEGALLY)

CON MOTIVATIONS

Those who oppose death penalty do it mostly for moral reasons. Besides the atrociousness implied in this instrument (atrociousness which doesn't end during the execution, but consists in years of anguish waiting for it), they think that no man, neither individually nor as a society representative, has the right to take another man's life, even apart from the seriousness of his guilt.

In the opinion of death penalty opposers, it contravenes the principle according to which the penalty doesn't have to tend to the revenge or the mere punishment of the criminal, but must re-educate him and rehabilitate him morally and humanely: and what rehabilitation will be possible towards a dead man? As a matter of fact, the fear of neglecting details and legal means to which the sentenced can apply protracts trials and postpones the execution, so the condemned is often changed from the man who commited the crime, with the result of executing people different from the condemned ones.
Besides ethics, death penalty opposers refute point by point supporters' thesis, saying that death penalty isn't deterrent, as it's simplicistic to think that a criminal consults the code to choose what crime to commit, and that is useless against organized criminality, which has been actually defeated sometimes, but with other instruments, for example hitting it in its economic interests.
Other phenomena that death penalty supporters think avoidable only with its use, like recidivisms or private revenge, are to be faced, according to opposers, in terms of social education, that is helping and following former prisoners and doing a general widespread work of legal education.
There are other two considerations even more significant. First of all, the possibility of miscarriages of justice, that is the not remote at all possibility of killing an innocent, justifies alone the abolition of death penalty. Finally, death penalty is discriminating, in fact mostly criminals of weak social classes or marginal groups are sentenced to death: members of ethnic minorities, little-educated people, people whose familiar life is adrift, poor people, sometimes political opponents.
In a more detailed way it is possible to verify the inefficaciousness of death penalty in some particular cases:

	Is it effective against murderers?
	Is it effective against drug traffickers?
	Is it effective against terrorists?