How do capital punishment help to reduce the crime rates in those countries who practise this kind of?

mhmd

Those people that you punish, capitally, will not re-offend. The threat of a death penalty is also supposed to deter people from committing a crime knowing they would be killed if caught. Also serves as a punishment of last resort. If you lock someone up in prison and they know that they're in forever, then they have nothing to loose by killing other prisoners or guards. But if he knows that if he kills anyone else he might die, it might deter him. At least, that's the theory.

NeoLibs are Pathogens

Not sure it has any bearing on crime itself, but guarantees that one person, pre-disposed to committing heinous murder, can never do it again. When was the last time someone executed ever murdered again? I can name lots of people spared that penalty who've done it again.

The death penalty has been proven a deterent to those executed...not one has ever killed again, either a fellow inmate, a guard, or unfortunate visitor

Captain Falcon

Dead people can't commit crimes. Whats not to understand?

VastRightWingConspiracy

Logic is pretty simple. If people think there is a heavy price they pay for committing crimes, they won't commit those crimes because the price to too high to pay. Life is probably the most valuable possession any individual has. It is called deterrence.

Whether or not there actually is a deterrence affect is still debated.

Coke

Sure cuts down on repeat offenders !

Does it deter crime , only in people who care or have some moral fiber in their person.
To the rapist, thug, gang banger and other gang type crimes , to the drug dealers and pimps it makes no difference as they all believe they are above the law anyway.

hehe

Capital punishment if applied correctly will keep the criminal from killing again. It is a similar concept as asking why a police officer would shoot a gun man who is shooting up a place rather than taking him into custody and booking him in jail.

dansker

Many donâ€™t understand that people who typically commit capital murders generally do not engage in probability analysis concerning the likelihood of getting the death penalty if they are caught. Many individuals who act out these crimes are severely mentally distraught. A perfect example of this is Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy chose his final crimes to be in Florida because it had the death penalty. Many believe that imposing the death penalty will cut crime rates. Statistics show that â€œeighteen of the 20 states with the highest murder rates have and use the death penalty. Of the nationâ€™s 20 big cities with the highest murder rates, 17 are in death penalty jurisdictions.â€(Freedman) A wonderful example of this effect is Michigan. Michigan, a state with no death penalty, borders Indiana. Indiana, who imposes death sentencing and carries out executions, has indistinguishable homicide rates in comparison to Michigan. Myron Love, the presiding judge in Harris County TX, (which is the county that has executed 10% of our entire countryâ€™s prisoners since 1976) states that, â€œWe are not getting what I think we should be wanting and this is to deter crime. In fact, the result is the opposite. Weâ€™re having more violence,[and] more crime.â€

Gertrud S

it does not. definitely not.

just compare the criminal records of of countries with or without
the death penalty and compare to the number of murders per
head of population.

John

It doesn't reduce crime. Capital punishment has been proven in many studies to NOT have a deterrent effect on crime rates at all.

It DOES feel good, however, to know that, whether or not an execution has an effect on OTHER criminals, THIS one won't ever hurt anyone again.

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