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| Yes | 41% | 510 votes | Total: 1234 votes | |
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The last execution in England took place on 13 August 1964. And the death penalty was abolished in 1969. It remains a hot topic of debate today, with many people adamant the ...read more
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by Mark Hopkins
There does seem to be evidence that the death penalty acts as a deterrent to some people and for that reason it should be available to judges. In the UK the death penalty for mu...read more
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According to an Article written in the Wall Street Journal. A study by the Pepperdine University has shown that the death penalty is a deterrent. The study spanned from 1979 to ...read more
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by Leroy Fodor
The death penalty is a perfect deterrent. In order for any rehabilitation program to be effective you have to choose one that will make the criminal fear the consequences of his...read more
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Gee whiz, good people! Think about this for just a moment, please. If I committed a deadly crime and was put to death for it, do you think I would be effectively deterred from f...read more
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by Larry Head
Is the Death Penalty and effective deterrent to crime? Indeed it is. "How so", do you ask. "How does taking the life of the criminal resonate as fair treatment"? you argue. ...read more
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The death penalty is a very effective crime deterrant. Recently, the Singapore government exercised the death penalty to Van Tuong Nguyen for bringing drugs into Singapore. I am...read more
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Let the Crime decide the punishment: While many argue that taking the life of a convicted murderer is unjust punishment, anyone who has ever worked in law enforcement or the pen...read more
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by Ted Sherman
One thing's for sure. Once the murderer is put to death, you can be absolutely sure he won't go out and kill anyone else. Of course, there are many variations of how and why pri...read more
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The death penalty is an effective crime deterrent, at least for the one's who are put to death. The problem is that not very many criminals make it there, and many of them know...read more
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by Jason Austin
There is always one person for whom the death penalty is a strong deterrent - the person executed! There are always two reasons for any form of punishment. One of the reasons ...read more
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by Nadia Ghanny
The argument has often been sited that the death penalty has never been a deterrent for crime. I personally believe it can be an effective approach and should be re-established...read more
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The death penalty is no doubt a touchy subject, but it does have its pros and cons. Every person judges his daily activities by what is lawfully correct and wrong. If there were...read more
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by T. M. Beeker
If you kill someone who commits a crime you 100% deter their future crimes. It is truly that simple and while the weak do not like it the deterrence is without question. The...read more
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Capital punishment is absolutely unpopular nowadays. Who said that? The human rights advocates, religious leaders and any other humanitarian organizations? These groups believed...read more
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by Karen Moore
Is the threat of any punishment an effective crime deterrent? With the rising crime rate one would argue it is not, but the truth lies in the hidden statistics that will never ...read more
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I feel the death penality, although it has certain flaws, is overall an effective crime deterrent. Death penalities are not something that are done lightly and used only in the ...read more
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In my opinion, yes the death penalty is effective. Yet I also believe that it would be a hundred times more effective if the government had public executions. How many times hav...read more
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As Mahatma Ghandi said, " We must become the change we wish to see in the world." This quote represents my stance on this, the most important of issues, whether or not capital...read more
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Capital punishment is among the most fervently debated issues in American politics. Passion run high for both parties included in the heated debate, those who want the death pe...read more
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by Skye Martin
"If the USA's capital justice system were a private company, it would have been shut down long ago. After three decades, this is an enterprise showing no measurable benefit for...read more
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by Stephen Bate
The justification and existence of the death penalty is an extremely difficult subject for many of us to rationalize. Is it right to sentence anyone to execution for their crime...read more
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by Lucido Mente
Study after study has proved that the death penalty is not an effective crime deterrent nor does it save on cost. Martin O'Malley, of "The Washington Post", in his article,...read more
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You only have to look as far as national crime statistics to see that the death penalty is no deterrent. The more important issue is that the death penalty is a barbaric exercis...read more
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The efficacy and suitability of capital punishment has, necessarily, long been debated in the United States and abroad. Whereas European nations have abandoned the death penalt...read more
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by E. V. SHAW
I honestly think there is no effective crime deterrent. People murder people, knowing that the sentence will probably be death also, knowing that they will have appeal after ap...read more
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While the death penalty does create a strong fear of discovery in perpetrators, in the long run it is not an effective method of preventing the types of crime that it is meant t...read more
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With the exception of serial killers, there are only two reasons people kill-love or money. The overwhelming percentage of murders are committed by someone close to the victim ...read more
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Especially in the USA it is self-evident that the death penalty cannot qualify as a deterrent simply because the murder rate keeps rising. Rather it is evident that the state...read more
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by Randy Scott
No, not now nor ever will the death penalty ever be a deterrent to crime. I could end right here but there is a word minimum to meet. There are a couple of reasons why the de...read more
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by Viv Corridor
Capital punishment in our modern age is as ineffective as it has always been and for the same reason: People capable of murder are already so far beyond the capacity for rationa...read more
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People say: "If you have killed, you deserve to die". But that's a slogan, not an argument. Most murderers aren't sentenced to death, so judges and juries don't generally agree ...read more
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The concept of the death penalty is one I struggle with. In general, I'm against it, but when it comes to mass murderers such as Ted Bundy and John Gacy, I can't claim to feel a...read more
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by Stoneheart
Execute a person who grievously harms or kills and, for sure, they're deterred from doing it again. But no way is the death penalty an effective crime deterrent. Over near...read more
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The death penalty does not effectively deter people from committing violent crime. If it did, wouldn't the states and countries that enforce it be absent of murder and other cri...read more
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The death penalty is not a deterrent to crime except where the non dangerous, non criminal is concerned. Most of us that know about the death penalty are not going to go out an...read more
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by Debbie Robus
The question of whether the death penalty an effective crime deterrent is answered in a myriad of ways, depending on one's personal experiences. The opinions are widely varied...read more
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by Can Tran
By no means is the death penalty a deterrant let alone an effective deterrant for crime. It won't be a deterrant for crime, not for a very long time. We've had the death penal...read more
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I do not believe that the death penalty is an effective crime deterrent, but that is not a reason to oppose it or seek its abolition. We should keep the death penalty for the st...read more
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by Ben Hughes
The death penalty has a number of serious anomalies about it which means it's one of the topics which comes back again and again in various debates around the world. Historic...read more
