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Capital Punishment is the lawful infliction of death as a punishment and since ancient times it has been used for a wide variety of offences. Capital punishment should remain outlawed in Australia. The following factors are discussed to support this statement. Firstly the history of the Australian laws regarding capital punishment and when it was abolished from Australian law. Secondly by discussing the United State’s, England’s and the Islamic laws regarding capital punishment and for what crimes they commit and how each country carry’s out the death sentence. Thirdly the primary stakeholders, including the community, the government the defendant’s families and also the jurors and how they will be affected socially, economically and politically will be discussed. Lastly, it will show of five innocent people’s cases that were sentenced to death followed by a recommendation.
Australia should keep the capital punishment outlawed in Australia. Law breakers were harshly treated during the early parts of Australian history. Capital punishment was used for serious offences, including mass murder. Less serious offences were usually carried out by prison sentences. Many of the criminal offences were unified into one statute called the Crimes Act in 1900 in NSW. By this means, parliament could prescribe maximum penalties for each offence, allowing for uniform administration of justice. Parliament could also add new offences to this list. (Vijaya Nagarajan: 1989:29) It was only in 1973 that under the commonwealth law, that the death penalty was abolished. And while for the NSW, the death penalty is generally acknowledged to have been abolished in 1955. The death penalty for some unusual crimes, such as treason and piracy was not finally removed until 1985. (Ivan Poets and John Walker: 1993:45)
The United States of America stands in stark contrast to Australia. Since the mid 1970’s, the constitutional objection that the death penalty was a ‘cruel and...
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