Does the death penalty work as a deterant?

Question

Aside from the fact that they can't kill again if they are dead that is.

Answer 1

I don't think so. If someone really had enough hate in them to kill someone, I think the consequences are probably the last things they think about.

Answer 2

Obviously not -- if it did, any crime punishable by death would have ceased a long time ago. It's not even a deterrent in countries where execution is mostly trial-less and very swift, like (for example) Saudi Arabia -- they still have a number of executions every year (for things like adultery) even though there's no lengthy appeal process that can drag life on for years like in the US.

Deterrents are like locks -- they're for honest people. Somebody who doesn't give a crap about society and law is going to do what they want to do (including murder) no matter what the punishment is. And a government that kills its people is no better than the citizen killers that do the same thing. :(

P2Kman -- Yemen is supposed to have the lowest crime rate in the world. However, there are an awful lot of countries with crime rates very close to Yemen's that do NOT have the death penalty, and a lot with some of the very highest rates that DO have the death penalty...so that proves nothing. Sorry.

Answer 3

Do I care if a serial killer, a mass assassin or a terrorist faces the shortcoming of life penalty? No, not extremely. Is it proper? certain and no. lack of human life? On each part, certain, yet who's innocuous and who's accountable? the issue is likely extra of a situation about racism that I genuinely have in the States. also, little ones get into drugs and gangs at a delicate age and are not given possibilities. it really is extra valuable to positioned a drug addict into remedy and verify out to help little ones off the streets. Abuse is a aspect yet replaced into Charles Manson from an abusive living house? No. Charles Ng? certain. Idi Amin? No. Stalin? certain. It is going to and fro. Harsher sentences are the most acceptable deterrent. so a procedures as value is going, stop putting people in reformatory for marijuana, robbery, fraud, freedom of speech, vandalism and different minor crimes that should be dealt with outdoors the detention center equipment extra effectively.

Answer 4

no one really cares whether it deters criminals or not, its the ultimate punishment: an eye for an eye mentality, but if it works in removing an undesirable from the general population then the death penalty should become a permanent fixture. In fact, we probably ought to televise more executions and see if in--say, twenty-five years if it made a difference in lowering the crime rate. That might prove to be a good yardstick to see if it is really a deterant. If not, then exterminate them quitely and out of sight.

Answer 5

Not the way the system is set up now. As a matter of fact, our government is supporting people who have been sentenced to death for decades while they manipulate the appeals process beyond belief. I think that if the death penalty were immediate and public, it would serve as a huge deterrent for future crime, but as it stands, the American public won't stand for that (too squeamish), so no, it doesn't work as a deterrent.

Answer 6

No because they can live longer on death row than most can in a life sentence. The amout of appeales those guys get is crazy and the whole time they are still just sitting in jail doing their thing. While we fork out all that money for their court costs and the judges time, where most inmates that have a life sentence don't use as much of the courts time and thus cost less to keep in prison.

Answer 7

In it's current form the Death Penalty doesn't seem to be a very effective deterent. Partly because it seems to be so rare that it's actually used. Kind of like threatening your children with a spanking yet never spank them. After a while they being to perceive the threat as meaningless or idle. However, children who are spanked promptly after a number of proper warnings quickly learn to fear the spanking and become somewhat more hesitant or cautious in their actions.

Answer 8

The death penalty only works as a deterrent if one fears dying. Is it not extremely hypocritical though to say thou shat not kill, or, we'll kill you? I think there are much better ways to punish people than death. Stop making prisons so damn cushie! they get three meals a day and cable TV for god sake! Now that's harsh! No No, please don't make me eat, sleep, work out, and watch TV all day that would be terrible! Come on now!

Answer 9

I don't think so. Usually when people get mad enough to kill they go through with it. I seems the people that usually get the death penalty get it because they were so brutal in the killing or killings. Because there are different degrees of murder it gives people better chance of maybe getting life of a lesser sentence.

Answer 10

uh.....no the next man could care less. Death is death whether it be on the street or in the pen

if that were the case then cops would be effective.

Dealer would not deal gang banger would not bang

You can die answering a question ask the kid that had a plane land on his room while playing a game, gone just like that.
So to a criminal or a villian they could care less they accepted death, i hope, when they began their crim activities

Answer 11

It didn't deter the person who killed Jessica Lunsford. It didn't deter the BTK killer either. And apparently, it's not doing anything to stop the 3 serial killers I saw on the news just last night.