The death penalty has provoked heated discussion since biblical times, and today the debate remains as controversial as ever. Is such a sentence ever justified? Capital punishment is an intensely emotional topic for everyone involved because it sits at the intersection of life, death and the very definition of the word 'justice.'
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Should the U.S. Abolish the Death Penalty?
Retain rhe Death Penalty
The threat of the death penalty has been
shown to be a deterent to murder.
- wytside July 16, 2008 8:14AM
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RE: Retain rhe Death Penalty
Do you have any evidence to back this up this claim? An assertion is not a proof, nor is it even a compelling argument.
- cwilton
September 28, 2008 1:35PM
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Evidence that death is a deterent to crime:
In Africa, HIV / AIDS is a huge problem. Rape is another huge problem. It is a fact that the vast majority of rape in Africa is against young girls/infants. This is because at these viginal young ages, wthe victims are far less likely to have contracted HIV/AIDS through the most common manner: sexual intercourse.
Rapists target the safer victim because of the threat of death.
Furthermore, I point you to the following George Washington International Law Review Publication:
http://www.allbusiness.com/professional-scientific-technical-services/legal-services/4098211-1.html
- SolarSanitizer
June 19, 2009 5:43AM
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viginal?
The deterent to playing intellect should be using non words!
- CitizenZebra
November 9, 2009 8:48AM
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The deterent to ...
playing intellectual is using non words, :viginal?
- CitizenZebra
November 9, 2009 8:52AM
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stopping
That isn't really stopping them from committing the crime , it is just causing them to change their target.
- MrBook
November 10, 2009 6:32PM
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Studies
Could you please produce the studies which have "shown" this deterrance effect in which criminals think about consequences.
- DominicSavio
November 2, 2008 12:29AM
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Deterrent
http://www.cjlf.org/deathpenalty/DPDeterrence.htm
There is no definitive answer, but consider this: is there anything to show, definitively, that the number of innocent lives saved by a deterrent effect is less than the number taken wrongly by the death penalty?
- Zed
December 29, 2008 10:55AM
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Yes...
confessions!
- CitizenZebra
November 9, 2009 8:50AM
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