The death penalty is a punishment of thousands of years of history At present there are still many countries and regions that use the death penalty as the capital punishment but there are also many countries and regions have abolished the death penalty The argument of whether to abolish the death penalty has also appeared for a long time This article will discuss why we should not abolish the death penalty from the perspectives of humanism miscarriage discrimination and deterrence When it comes to capital punishment people are always talking about whether they are humanized It seems a very cruel matter to bring death to someone even on the basis of legal process Of course this argument can always be the reason for those abolitionists The main point of these abolitionists is that death penalty violates human dignity because it deprives people of their right to life In their view the death penalty reflects the most basic animal instincts of mankind an eye for an eye life for a life Grant 2004