The document discusses the death penalty and whether Namibia should introduce it. It defines the death penalty as a legal sentence of death for convicted criminals, carried out through methods like lethal injection or hanging. There are differing views among Namibians, with some supporting it to give closure to victims' families or serve justice, while others oppose it due to risks of executing innocent people or it violating human rights. The conclusion is that the death penalty will not reduce crime rates and only increase societal violence, so governments should pursue alternative criminal justice methods without putting offenders to death.

1. Understanding of death penalty
By: Paulus A Kaupolo

2. Introduction
Death penalty has been used worldwide in respond
those who commit crime. IN the wake of the recent
spate of horrific child abuse and murder cases, many
people in Namibia are calling for a re-introduction of
the death penalty while other think as not needed.

3. Definition of death penalty?
 Death penalty is the legal obligation of a sentence of
death upon a convicted offender.
 It is another term for capital punishment.
 it done by means of the electric chair, the gas
chamber, lethal injections, the garrotte and hanging

4. Should Namibia introduce death penalty?
• People have different view regard the introduction of
death penalty.
• Some of them are supporting whilst others against it.
• Why different opinion?
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5. Different opinion regard death penalty
A. Save innocent lives
B. It gives a closure to the
a victim’s family
C. Justice will be better
served (eye for eye).
D. Executed criminal
cannot commit any
more crime
E. They give up their
human right
therefore they
should die.
 Risk to execute innocent
people
 it violate the bill of right
 Mentally ill people will
put to death
 Family will be suffering
seeing their beloved
put to death by the
state
 It will promote violence
instead of deter crime

Supporting the death
penalty
Against death penalty

6. Disadvantage of death penalty
 When innocent person put to death ,it could never be
collected
 It in conflict with the bill of right that entitled every
person to life, liberty and secured.
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7. CONCLUSION
Capital punishment is not the way out and it will
not decrease the rate of crimes but only increase the
level of psychological violence in society. Therefore
our governments must search for alternative
methods that will not put the offender to death
aiming to reduce crime, as there is no one has a
right to kill.

8. REFERENCE
 http://www.theotherjournal.com
 http://www.deathpenelty.org/article.php?list=class&type=53&clas
 http://www.americanmagazine.org/issue/100
 http://www.usiberals.about.com/u/ua/deathpenaltyquestion.05.htm
 http://www.thegurdian.com/law/2012/dec/05
 http://www.debate.org/oppinions/
 http://www.hoelsherlaw.com
 http://www.deathpenaltyinfoo.org/node/523
 http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/deterrrence%20brief%20.pd
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