Death Penalty

Is death penalty a fair punishment? In Mexico delinquency has been increasing during the last years, for that reason people feel insecure when they go out to the streets. Mexico society has demanded immediate intervention of authorities, to prevent crime and punish criminals. Due to that, authorities have thought about the idea of applying death penalty to murderers, hijackers, thieves, etc, as in other countries. But death penalty is not a good punishment for some reasons.

It is not assured that, with Death Penalty delinquency will end. Criminals will not learn the lesson if Death Penalty is applied. According to the president of the College of Catholic Lawyers in Mexico, Armando Martinez, “Crime can be reduced through education and building a society in which the rule of law is respected”. And I support that idea, if people have education, they will respect the rules of the society.  “The death penalty is punishment upon punishment, that is, we would be falling into vengeance, and when will it end? If you kill a criminal, there will be a sense of hatred and vengeance and it will be a circle that never ends,” Martinez argued. That point is very important because it will become a string of murders. Capital punishment on Mexico cannot achieve anything if there is no education.

Another important point that makes me be against of  the Death Penalty is that there are some human rights that mention important aspects about life. If authorities apply Death penalty to criminals, they will be contradicting Human Rights; because, it means to violate an essential privilege, “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights” that is enshrined in “The universal declaration of Human Rights”. It would not be fair for any human being if authorities apply death penalty. Also death penalty means to deprive someone to live, and it is not fair because everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. Those two civil liberties are the most important rights that mention essential aspects related to the right to live.

There are many people who think that be against Death penalty means defend criminals, but it is not correct. To be in opposition to that kind of punishment, it is not the same to protect offenders, it means to not act like one of them. If people support the idea about Death penalty, they will be doing the same as a criminal, because they want to kill. Death penalty will not eliminate violence. If authorities act applying Death Penalty they will not achieve anything. People do not have to combat violence with more violence; it becomes dangerous for the society. William Bowers of Northeastern University, maintain that the death penalty has the opposite effect: that is, society is brutalized by the use of the death penalty, and this increases the likelihood of more murder.  

As a conclusion, Death Penalty is not a good way to punish criminals. Authorities and society have to think how to stop delinquency, because it is increasing so fast. Mexico needs to do something to finish with the criminal behavior of the people. In my opinion it is necessary to increase the level of the education in Mexico, because it is the root of a lot of problems. As it was mentioned Death Penalty cannot solve delinquency problems. In addition if it is applied authorities would not respect human rights.

A new experience

Have you ever lived an amazing experience? In my life good and interesting situations have appeared. One of them was my trip to Nuevo Vallarta. That travel was involved by great things, and everything started when I arrived there. In the hotel there were a lot of foreign people, but I paid attention in just one of them.

While my family and I were waiting to get the room, I was watching every thing around me, how the foreign people spoke another language. Also how people got stressed because they did not get their rooms. At that moment I felt very relaxed hearing the sound of the waves, when suddenly since the place where I was, I could notice a handsome guy swimming in the pool. I started to feel very strange; I could smell every single flower, although I did not know the name of each one of them. My stomach began to make strange sounds; I started to feel butterflies in it.

When I noticed his existence, I wanted to know where his room was; so I tried many things to find him because I wanted to see him the whole day. I know that it could be a crazy situation but I really enjoyed watching him.  At the moment I realized where his room was, it was embarrassing. My cousins and I were going upstairs to change our clothes, were dancing and laughing when suddenly the handsome guy appeared in front of us. I did not move, because I got really nervous, he said hi and kept walking. At that moment I detected that the room in front of mine belonged to him.  I felt very bad because he watched me acting ridiculously.   

I had a great conversation with the attractive foreign boy and it was the best of my trip. Everything started after his greeting. The last night of my trip my cousins and I went to dance, there, the handsome guy was, but he stayed just few minutes in the night club. My cousins and I were very tired, so we decided going out of the night club to go to sleeping.  We were walking when unexpectedly the good- looking guy appeared with another guy, in front of us.  They started asking about our names and our lives, in English. At that moment I felt really thankful with God because I could understand them. The guy who I liked talked with me; I did not want to go to sleeping, while we were talking I felt great, I did not care anything, because I was really enjoying talking with him, we were laughing and sharing experiences about our lives. It was an amazing event for me.    

To conclude, I really enjoyed my trip to Nuevo Vallarta, for many reasons. But the most important was meeting a handsome foreign guy. It was important because I could practice my English skills with the guy that I liked. I felt very proud of myself. I could not believe that he was very interested in meeting me; it was like a dream, because it happened so fast. Although it was an adventure of just one night, it was an amazing, wonderful, interesting and new experience for me.