Does the death penalty hinder the murder rate?

Question

No.

Fact:The United States has the highest crime rate in the Western world,and it has the death penalty.In countries where the death penalty does not exist,the murder rate is much lower.

So why cant we just get rid of goverment sactioned barbarism and
lower our murder rate already?

mymadsky-thanks,but statistically it does not hinder FREE repeat offenders.Think about it.

kapute2-YOURE premise is flawed.VERY flawed.They have Islam nuts.I am talking about the European West

Answer 1

It hinders repeat offenders.

We are not a nation of religion, we are a nation of laws. You break these laws you pay the price.

If you kidnap a girl from the mall rape her in your car, drive her across state lines rape her again and beat her so badly that you crush her orbitals popping her eye out of the socket then dump her near lifeless mutilated body in the snow to die in the cold ten miles from nowhere, after leading a life of raping young girls and serving jail time...You have chosen your own path.

Is it our religious moral duty to maintain the pain and suffering of the vic's family? Is it our moral duty to pay for this monster's food, entertainment, clothing, shelter and legal fees?

Is it not hypocritical to ask the government not to legislate religious morality but then use morality to save a worthless piece of crap? Either you support the government legislating morality (gay marriage, abortion, capitol punishment, sexual relationships of consenting adults, sex education, creation, etc) or you do not.

Why do you think you can pick and choose? Why do you demand to legislate YOUR morality on others yet are so steadfast to not allow other's morality to be put into law?

Morality and governemnt do not mix.

Answer 2

Oh the death penalty debate strikes again....im my research on the subject, I may have an answer for you, kind of. There are 2 types of crime according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Report (UCR); Part I and Part II. So when you say the US has the highest crime rate, you are including all crimes and not just he ones that are eligible for application of capital punishment. The part I's are the violent ones. The US does have the highest crime rate PUBLISHED; its not to say that we have the highest crime rate period. Now, with regards to the death penalty, it has been shown in a 1974 (thereabouts) study that for every murderer convicted and sentenced to death, ~7 inncocent lives are spared. That being said, you have to delve much deeper and look at the topic on a state by state basis. Those states with an active (the death penalty is actually used and not just on the books for threatened) death penalty, I would be willing to guess that the violent crime rate is lower. Feel free to email me for more [e-mail]

Answer 3

Hitler was a vegetarian who hated cigarettes. He rolled right over those countries that were so civilized they had no death penalty.

Wanna run a recalculation on you "government sanctioned barbarism"? What makes you so sure that, in the long run, eliminating the death penalty will lower the murder rate? And why would lower European murder rates translate to lower Amerian murder rates when other government plans, such as government medicine, when adopted in the US, have explosive and uncontrollable costs (because of the American fetish for hypochondriasis and for cheating).

Personally, I don't think the death penalty has much effect on the murder rate -- but -- it's better than housing the murderer in jail for decades at $29,000 to $100,000 a year on my tax money, and, it's important that the death penalty reminds every citizen that the government and its courts have life or death power over them -- which is an invaluable reminder.

And, obviously, countries that won't own up to that life and death power over their citizens themselves get conquered by a bona fide barbarian.

Answer 4

The only reason the death penalty does not hinder murder in this country is because people get it and sit on death row for 25 yrs befor they actually get to the point of exicution I say kill them off faster and then people will start thinking about commiting death penalty crimes

Answer 5

the death penalty is not for reducing crime, the death penalty is just a political issue that gets stirred up once in while to gain votes, it is a barbaric practice with the US being the only civilized nation that still adopts it, inocent people have been executed that argument alone should be enough to abolish it.

Answer 6

For decades, researches have know the death penalty does not deter murders. I am one of the minority, too, who believes a state execution is premeditated murder and makes us no better than the person who committed the original crime. Are any of you aware we are one of the few countries in the entire world who still execute people for crimes?

Answer 7

The problem is the liberals are impeding the death penalty.

Just like the liberal judge who gave a 3 time convicted child rapist 3 months for his 3rd offense.

I bet that judge sleeps well at night.

Answer 8

Doesn't hinder the murder rate at all. But I love it. I'm able to bill tax payers for eight, nine, ten appeals or more. Should have hired me first I would have gotten them off.

Denny Crane

Answer 9

It doesn't work - I mean, you get an automatic appeal the minute the sentence is handed down - therefore, it is no deterent. Personally, I feel they should get rid of it - if not, then when the sentence comes down they should be taken to the firing range and let's be done with it.

Answer 10

No, It does not hinder the murder rate.