What it improved with the leg of death in U.S.A.?

Question

With the death penalty the number of murders diminished?

Answer 1

No the death penalty is kept from being a deterrent by the fact that there is always a lawyer who will take their case and string it out with spurious actions to keep the death penalty from being carried out. If you kill someone and then spend 23 years on death row without being executed that is no different than going to jail for that duration. So there is not a guaranteed connection between being convicted of even the most heinous crimes and the death penalty.

Answer 2

The death penalty is not a deterrent. Homicide rates are higher in states that have it than in states that do not.

Over 120 people have been released from death row since 1976 with conclusive evidence of their innocence. Many of them had already spent over 2 decades on death row before being exonerated. Innocent people would certainly be executed if the process were speeded up.

It is important to know that our appeals system is not designed to take a second look at whether a prisoner was actually innocent. It is set up to see if the initial trial met constitutional standards. It is extremely hard to get evidence of innocence introduced into an appeals court.

48 states now have life without parole on the books. It means what it says and it is no picnic to be locked in a tiny cell for 23 hours a day, forever. It is swift and sure, both absolute requirements for a punishment to act as a deterrent.

Note to Rich Z, who also answered your question- lawyers at innocence projects generally work on a pro bono basis.