Death penalty does not deter crime?

Question

Can you give me a good website with good resources of how it does NOT deter crime (doing this for a project) I feel like I've looked all over and can't find anything worth using!

Answer 1

Best place to start is the Death Penalty Information Center.
You will find that homicide rates are higher in states (and nations) with the death penalty than in those without it.

For concise information about deterrence, visit
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?&did=1705#STATES%20WITH%20THE%20DEATH%20PENALTY%20V.%20STATES%20WITHOUT and look at the lead article.

For stats that may be easier to follow visit
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=12&did=169
The information there is based on FBI stats. Look at the regional stats and then at the state by stat statistics.
The picture will be very clear to you.

By the way, many people confuse the deterrence with incapacitation. Deterrence means that a punishment for a crime will convince others not to commit it. Incapacitation means a punishment will prevent a criminal from reoffending. For a punishment to be a deterrence, it must be sure and swift. The death penalty is neither. Like the death penalty, life in prison without parole incapacitates a criminal and it is sure and swift. It means what it says. It costs much less than the death penalty.

Answer 2

I am sorry I don't have the answer to the website. I do agree that the death penalty does not deter crime. They keep on killing! The only thing the death penalty does is make the person responsible be remove permanently from society. However, there will always be someone who will take his/her place as soon as the space comes open. This is sad but true

Answer 3

If the death penalty deterred crime why is there still crime??

Answer 4

All sanctions deter.

THE DEATH PENALTY: SAVING MORE INNOCENT LIVES

The Innocent Frauds: Standard Anti Death Penalty Strategy
and
THE DEATH PENALTY: SAVING MORE INNOCENT LIVES
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-innocent-frauds-standard-anti-death.html

OF COURSE THE DEATH PENALTY DETERS: A review of the debate
and
MURDERERS MUCH PREFER LIFE OVER EXECUTION
99.7% of murderers tell us "Give me life, not execution"
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/03/of-course-death-penalty-deters.html


and


RACE & THE DEATH PENALTY: A REBUTTAL TO THE RACISM CLAIMS
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2012/07/rebuttal-death-penalty-racism-claims.html

The Death Penalty: Not a Human Rights Violation
http://homicidesurvivors.com/2006/03/20/the-death-penalty-not-a-human-rights-violation.aspx

Killing Equals Killing: The Amoral Confusion of Death Penalty Opponents
http://homicidesurvivors.com/2013/02/19/murder-and-execution--very-distinct-moral-differences--new-mexico.aspx

The Death Penalty: Neither Hatred nor Revenge
http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/07/20/the-death-penalty-neither-hatred-nor-revenge.aspx

The Death Penalty: Mercy, Expiation, Redemption & Salvation
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-death-penalty-mercy-expiation.html


MORAL FOUNDATIONS

Immanuel Kant: "If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.". "A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else's life is simply immoral."

Pope Pius XII; "When it is a question of the execution of a man condemned to death it is then reserved to the public power to deprive the condemned of the benefit of life, in expiation of his fault, when already, by his fault, he has dispossessed himself of the right to live." 9/14/52.

John Murray: "Nothing shows the moral bankruptcy of a people or of a generation more than disregard for the sanctity of human life." "... it is this same atrophy of moral fiber that appears in the plea for the abolition of the death penalty." "It is the sanctity of life that validates the death penalty for the crime of murder. It is the sense of this sanctity that constrains the demand for the infliction of this penalty. The deeper our regard for life the firmer will be our hold upon the penal sanction which the violation of that sanctity merit." (Page 122 of Principles of Conduct).

John Locke: "A criminal who, having renounced reason... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tyger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security." And upon this is grounded the great law of Nature, "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." Second Treatise of Civil Government.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "In killing the criminal, we destroy not so much a citizen as an enemy. The trial and judgments are proofs that he has broken the Social Contract, and so is no longer a member of the State." (The Social Contract).

Saint (& Pope) Pius V: "The just use of (executions), far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to this (Fifth) Commandment which prohibits murder." "The Roman Catechism of the Council of Trent" (1566).

3200 additional pro death penalty quotes
http://prodpquotes.info/


1) 86% Death Penalty Support: Highest Ever - April 2013
World Support Remains High
95% of Murder Victim's Family Members Support Death Penalty
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/11/86-death-penalty-support-highest-ever.html

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Victim's Voices - These are the murder victims
http(COLON)//www.murdervictims.com/Voices/voices.html

Much more, upon request. [e-mail]

Answer 5

Sorry, don't know. But it does deter the f**k out of me!

Answer 6

It sure as heck deters the people who receive it.

Not ONE person who was executed ever committed another crime!

Answer 7

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?&did=1705#STATES%20WITH%20THE%20DEATH%20PENALTY%20V.%20STATES%20WITHOUT
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=12&did=169
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=12&did=168
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?&did=1705#LAW%20ENFORCEMENT%20AND%20THE%20DEATH%20PENALTY