1. Capital Punishment
Jean Piaget, the famous child psychologist, said that getting people to stop killing by putting them to death is like spanking a child and saying, "I am doing this to teach you not to hit people smaller than you." ... Pius X Church, Conyers, Ga. 11) QUOTES "Why is the United States almost the only country in the civilized world where the death sentence still exists and where there is still hunger in the population for such sentences? ...
Deterrence Leslie Cantu: Fear of death deters people from committing crimes, proponents say. They also believe that if attached to certain crimes, the penalty of death exerts a positive moral influence by placing a stigma on certain crimes like manslaughter, resulting in attitudes of disgust and horror to such acts. Furthermore, retentionists insist that the deterrent influence of the death penalty reaches across state lines into jurisdictions that have abolished it, and so all benefit by its continued use. Perhaps this is the intended goal of the Violent Crime Control And Law Enforcement Ac...