Why is the death penalty not a deterrent 23 Articles

by Keen Johns

To someone in a state of torment or rage, any legislative considerations that exist, are paled into insignificance due to the amplitude of the underlying problem that caused the state of rage. They are in effect blinded t...read more

by Pat Lunsford

Is the death penalty a deterrent? In some parts of the world today you get your hand cut off if you steal; yet people in these countries continue to steal. In some countries, the death penalty means having your head choppe...read more

by Sebastian Ramshackle III

If the death penalty was a deterent, the United States would be one of the safest countries on the face of the Earth. It isn't, and neither are any of the other countries that impose the death penalty, which is why it is s...read more

by Elaine Sihera

The death penalty is not a deterrent because, quite simply, people do not think about the consequences of their crime when they are committing it. They might wish they hadn't done it afterward, but they would not have thou...read more

by Memo

The death penalty is not, nor will it ever be a deterrent to those who commit capital crimes worthy of such a punishment. I personally know 3 death row inmates, well, I had grown up with them hanging out in the same circle...read more

by Aj Harmon-Glaus

The death penalty isn't a deterrent because the average human being doesn't see that far into the future. most crime is not a crime of thought, but of temporary passion, a passion that jumps the pre-frontal cortex (where c...read more

by Penny B

Crime is rampant in our cities and towns across North America. Whereas many states in the US carry the death penalty for the more severe crimes, Canada does not have a death penalty at all. There has been debate for many y...read more

by Sean Curtis

The death penalty is not a deterrent against crime for one simple reason: it presupposes that the criminal values his or her life. Since the death penalty is almost exclusively reserved for those who commit murder, the ver...read more

by Stephanie Klesko

It has been debated for decades whether capital punishment is humane and a deterrent to crime. The question of cruelty has essentially become mute, because execution has shown ineffectiveness in discouraging the criminal b...read more

by abraham maxwell

The death penalty is not a deterrent in my op ion for two reasons. One would be that the people who commit such crimes that warrant a death sentence, usually don't care weather they die or not. Their lives are based on a l...read more

by Carol Levy

If I commit a heinous crime, the probability is that the idea of a possible state sanctioned execution, happening 10 - 15 hence, is not one of my considerations. If this act is one made in the somewhat heat of passion t...read more

by Sheree Zielke

He holds the blade aloft, its thin edge glittering cruelly in the street lamp glare. The tall man raises his arm for the kill, and then stops. "Wait," he thinks, "If I get caught for murdering this person, I shall surel...read more

by Mark Hammerschmidt

Nobody thinks they are going to get caught. Every crime, when committed, is the perfect crime. It isn't until Johnny Law comes knocking on the door that most criminals' hearts drop into their stomach and a little light bul...read more

by Mac McGovern

Why do we believe the death penalty is not a deterrent to capital crime? According to the Death Penalty Information Center, Over 3000 inmates reside on death row in the United States in 38 states. Since 1976, there have be...read more

by Rebecca Wall

The death penalty is not a deterrent because nobody uses it right. I have seen people sit on death row for 20-30 years. Also, I have seen murderers be released from prison. Why would it be a deterrent when criminals know t...read more

by Melanie Rybicki

An eye for an eye? The death penalty has not been proven to stop future murders any more then the life sentence. Actually some criminologists say that the death penalty has the opposite effect, Willilam Bowers of the North...read more

by Foxbaron

The death penalty is not a deterrent because we don't use it right. The death penalty, whenever it is imposed, takes forever to be carried out. It shouldn't take twenty years to kill a murderer. If there is absolutely...read more

by Gravi Trayn

Why should the death penalty be a deterrent when it is hidden, kept secret, or not doled out when necessary? Not to say there are not other things that need to be changed with the prison system, or how prisoner are treate...read more

by Christina Johnson

The death penalty is not a deterrent because it is not used enough in this day and age. Think about it. People can sit on death row getting 3 meals a day getting visitation maybe conjugal visits. They can watch tv work o...read more

by Rob Swanson

That's hardly a mystery - even if you do accept the premise of the question.* Murder is committed by three kinds of people: 1. Those who think they're going to get away with it. 2. Those who kill in the heat of th...read more