Capital punishment is a social institution whereby a goveronment punishes a.
certain crime by putting the offender to death. Killing is unethical. No person, state, or.
goveronment should have the right to decide whether a person lives or dies. " It is.
hypocritical for any society to claim that killing is the most intolerable crime, and then.
carry out state killings." - www. Marcus-clark.com.
The death penalty does not deter capital crimes from being committed. In fact,.
there are proven studies that show no relation between the death penalty and capital.
crimes. The key argument in support of the death penalty has always been that no.
offender wants to die, therefore the threat of execution will prevent homicide in society.
But in actuality, the death penalty does'nt achieve any of the things its supporters promise.
it will, and its an enormous waste of time and money.
The main reason it does not deter crime is because the actual act of execution is.
rarely carried out. Tax- payers usually end up paying for the costs of the Capital Pretrial,.
Trial Proceedings, and Retrials that usually end up with a life sentence anyway. .
America has higher murder rates with the death penalty, than any of the European.
countries without the death penalty. These statistics prove that capital punishment has the.
opposite effect of its original intentions which is why it should be abolished. The death.
penalty does not deter a person from committing a murder while in prison. In order for.
a criminal to feel deterred from committing a crime, they must feel some sort of threat or.
severe consequence. Obviously, a person committing a crime is not thinking about its.
consequences years to come, especially if they are already encarcerated.
The use of the death penalty as a revenge mechanism should not be justified. .
If a murderer kills someone, and then you kill the murderer out of revenge, you are.
essentially committing the exact same crime, wether is be by a knife or by a lethal.
