reasons for capital punishment is Canada?

Question

why does canada need the death penalty

Answer 1

1. If someone has already committed a crime that gets life imprisonment, what will stop them from doing more?
2. How do you protect prison guards in maximum security facilities?
3. It helps the authorities get cooperation in plea bargaining.
4. Some people are so scary evil, you don't want to give them a chance to escape.
5. If Canada wants to prosecute someone who also committed crimes elsewhere, it helps get extradition.

Answer 2

Why would Canada want to copy the United States on this one. The death penalty is not an effective way of preventing or reducing crime and it risks executions of innocent people.
You should know about some of the practical aspects of the death penalty system in the US. Here are answers to questions often asked about it with sources listed below.

What about the risk of executing innocent people?
124 people on death rows have been released with evidence of their innocence.

Doesn't DNA keep new cases like these from happening?
DNA is available in less than 10% of all homicides. It is not a guarantee against the execution of innocent people.

Doesn't the death penalty prevent others from committing murder?
No reputable study shows the death penalty to be a deterrent. To be a deterrent a punishment must be sure and swift. The death penalty is neither. Homicide rates are higher in states and regions that have it than in states that do not.

So, what are the alternatives?
Life without parole is now on the books in 48 states. It means what it says. It is sure and swift and rarely appealed. Life without parole is less expensive than the death penalty. Like the death penalty, life without parole incapacitates a criminal (prevents criminals from reoffending. A lot of people mistake incapacitation with deterrence.)

But isn't the death penalty cheaper than keeping criminals in prison?
The death penalty costs much more than life in prison, largely because of the legal process, which is supposed to reduce the chance of executions of innocent people. There are more cost effective ways to prevent and control crime.

What about the very worst crimes?
The death penalty isn’t reserved for the “worst of the worst,” but rather for defendants with the worst lawyers. When is the last time a wealthy person was sentenced to death, let alone executed??

Doesn't the death penalty help families of murder victims?
Not necessarily. Murder victim family members across the country argue that the drawn-out death penalty process is painful for them and that life without parole is an appropriate alternative.

So, why don't we speed up the process?
Over 50 of the innocent people released from death row had already served over a decade. If the process is speeded up we are sure to execute an innocent person.

But don’t Americans prefer the death penalty as the most serious punishment?
Not any more. People are rethinking their views, given the facts and the records on innocent people sentenced to death. According to a Gallup Poll, in 2006, 47% of all Americans prefer capital punishment while 48% prefer life without parole. Americans are learning about the system and we are making up our minds based on facts, not eye for an eye sound bites.

Answer 3

The objective is to permanently remove an individual from society.

Other means could also be used. For a long time, England sent criminals to Australia for that purpose. That seems to have worked out well.

Maybe Canada could help populate the first permanent Moon colony rather than have a death penalty.

Answer 4

They don't.