Many argue that murder in any form is morally wrong and that a society effecting the death penalty is engaging in the very act it is purportedly punishing. These standards, of course, are set by society through its laws to which citizens are expected to conform or face the consequences. The law is necessary to define what is right and what is wrong. A penalty is attached to indicate severity of offence. Without a penalty a law is not a law because it announces that it does not really matter whether the law is kept or not.
Punishment is the pain that one deserves for violating the law.
In fact punishment is an inherent element to justice. In St. Lucia murder is a disgraceful act for which the punishment is the death penalty. Albeit in recent times some murders have not been solved through lack of evidence, skill and will causing many to lose confidence in the justice system. Despite this systematic inefficiency and incompetence and its consequence of minimization of human life it is important that we understand that the society needs clear laws for which the punishment is also clear and leave little or no room for misinterpretation. The punishment too must suit the crime.