The death penalty is an expensive punishment, since 1976 the united states have spent 700 million dollars in it. Methods of the death penalty include lethal injection, gas chamber, electric chair, hanging and fire squad. In a 1986 poll 70% of Americans favored the death penalty as a punishment for murder.
There have been many comparisons of crime rates of death penalty states to non- death penalty states. These clearly show that the death penalty has no effect on the deterance of crime. The homicide rates in Michigan, Ohio and Illinois rise and fall along with Wisconsin. Michigan, Ohio and Illinois all have the death penalty. Wisconsin does not. In 1994, the average murder rate in a death penalty state of a population of 100,000 was 8.0, for a non-death penalty state, 4.4. In Canada the homicide rate per 100,000 people was 3.09 in 1975, this was when they had the death penalty. In 1976 Canada got rid of the death penalty. In 1986 the crime rate decreased to 2.19 per 100,000 people, the lowest in 15 years. Isn't it odd that the crime rates were high with the death penalty and low without?.
Many people believe that the death penalty isn't an effective way to deter crime. "The proposed drug death penalty is not only barbaric but also foolish: a temper tantrum masquerading as an act of government. It holds no promise for suppressing the drug.
trade, and may even be counterproductive" (Franklin E. Zimny) Time magazine, 1997. In a recent poll of police chiefs, 2/3 said they don't believe the death penalty deters crime but it is used as a political football by politicians (Nardo 43). Some people aren't afraid of dying, either. They have realized that everyone must die, so they have no fear of dying at any moment of time. This fact also forbids the death penalty from being 100% effective. In Britain, 167 people were one death row. 164 of them said they witnessed at least one execution before the committed their crime.
The argument for the abolishment of the death penalty is whether or not it does any good to decrease crime. Studies from the University of Minnesota have showed that states that have the death penalty don't have a lower crime rate. ... The death penalty is a global issue. ... A big argument is whether or not the death penalty prevents crime. ... The death penalty isn't a way to prevent crime. ...
The argument most often cited by supporters of death penalty is that the threat of executions deters crimes more than life imprisonment. ... Statistics from the Death Penalty Information Center (1997) show that the death penalty does not really deter crime. ... The United States, for instance, is the only Western nation that still allows the death penalty and has one of the highest crime rates. In 1996, death penalty states averaged a rate of 7.1 criminal homicides per 100,000, while non-death penalty states averaged a rate of 3.6 (Death Penalty Information Center, 1997). ... According to rese...
I am against the death penalty. ... According to the Death Penalty Information Center, "The report noted that the Texas crime rate rose 4% in 2001, nearly five times the national average, and the state posted a 7.6% increase in homicides. ... Crime has not gone down in areas where the death penalty has been streamlined for quickness. ... "The Death Penalty on Trial." ... "Debating the Death Penalty." ...
(Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Website) The main argument that advocates for the death penalty have is that the death penalty deters crime, that the threat of execution is enough to make criminals think twice about committing a capital crime. ... Clearly, by the time he has decided to commit his crime, he has already disregarded other forms of punishment besides the death penalty, such as lengthy imprisonment. ... (Death Penalty Information Center Website) People justify the death penalty in saying that in the Bible God says that murder should be punished with deat...
Currently, there have been over 1,000 deaths due to the death penalty since 1976 (Death Penalty Information Center). ... Court passed a law in 1977 stating that the death penalty was too excessive for rape crimes (Finkelman). ... If the death penalty was used more often then people wouldn't be afraid to step out of their homes everyday and have to worry about getting robbed, shot, or raped (Do you agree that capital punishment protects the public and discourages crime?). ... People believe that if the death penalty increases than the crime rate will decrease. ... Many of the criminals of ...
Lately, murderers have been getting a punishment equal to their crime, death. ... The death penalty contradicts the whole idea of human rights. ... Supporters of the death penalty believe that the death penalty helps keep the crime and murder rate down, but that is not so. States with death penalty laws do not have lower crime or rates than states that with death penalty laws. ... If the death penalty is not "cruel and unusual punishment" then what is? ...
There have been many comparisons of crime rates of death penalty states to non-death penalty states. ... Isn't it odd that the crime rates were high with the death penalty and low without? ... I believe that the death penalty isn't an effective way to deter crime. ... The death penalty is not an effective way to deter crime. ... Studies show that there is no relation between crime rates with death penalty states and crime rates without. ...
-Contact Death Penalty Focus. ... -Start a Death Penalty Focus chapter at your school. ... -Attend national conferences on death penalty organizing. ... What Teachers Can Do -Use the Death Penalty Information Center's curriculum for educators in your classroom! ... Death Penalty Focus can help you find many excellent speakers. ...
The death penalty is not a surefire way to punish criminals. ... Jury members may avoid the death penalty for this very reason. ... The ACLU wrote that there is no evidence that shows that the death penalty deters crimes more than long sentences of imprisonment. If the death penalty does not deter crime, why should there have a death penalty? While some studies claim that the death penalty does deter violent crimes, there are many others, including professors from Yale and University of Pennsylvania, who believe that there is no evidence to support this belief (Ruggiero). ...
Support of the death penalty from society is strong and studies prove that capital punishment is essential for the lowering of the crime rate and for preventing the recurrence of crime. ... Many people say that the death penalty does not deter crime; therefore there is no use for it. ... These examples clearly show the benefit of a higher penalty, such as the death penalty, to distinguish the difference between murder and other crimes. ... Liberals argue that the death penalty in the 1960's did not deter the number of crimes. ... Why the death penalty should not be dismissed ...
