THE DEATH PENALTY

The Death Penalty Is A Crime Deterrent

The Death Penalty Is a Crime Deterrent

Thesis Statement

The death punishment or capital penalty is the hardest penalty that could be obtained when an individual is convicted of a capital offense to avoid Crime Deterrent.

Introduction

Capital penalty refutes due method of law. Its imposition is random and irrevocable. It eternally deprives an one-by-one of advantages of new clues or new regulation that might warrant the reversal of a conviction or the setting apart of a death sentence (Kudlac 2007). The death punishment violates the legal assurance of the identical defence of the laws. It is directed randomly at best and discriminatorily at worst. It is enforced disproportionately up on those whose victims are white, on lawbreakers who are persons of hue, and on those who are themselves poor and uneducated (Davis 2001). The defects in death - punishment regulations, accepted by the Supreme Court in the early 1970s, have not been appreciably changed by the move from unfettered discretion to ' directed discretion. These alterations in death judgment have verified to be mostly cosmetic. They only mask the impermissible arbitrariness of a method that outcomes in an execution.

 

Analysis

Several studies have attempted to examine whether the death penalty acts as an effective deterrent or, on the contrary, it is better a prison sentence if the crime warrants. Dann, when considering the number of crimes committed sixty days after the execution of five convicted who received much publicity, is that crimes increased rather than reduced. Further studies followed the same methodology reached a similar conclusion (Haney 2005). One possible explanation for this phenomenon lies in the effect brutalizante established that criminals are motivated to challenge the death penalty when it receives attention from the authorities and the public. It seems that say "paid brutality with brutality."

Other studies, trying to find an association between the homicide rate and execution risk (number of executions per 1,000 homicides) (Baldus, et.al 2004). This author finds no link between crime and the death penalty in eleven U.S. states. Also, try to find a similar association for the European Community before and after they abolished the death penalty. Again, the result is negative; there is no evidence to support a reduction in crime proceeds of the death penalty. Two studies made state that those states that retain the death penalty have virtually the same rate of homicide than those who do not. Sellin also examined the homicide rate in states before and after the abolition of the death penalty and found that there is no significant difference between the two periods. More recently, a study conducted to 14 nations around the world shows that the crimes were reduced when the death penalty was abolished in them (Bailey & Peterson 2004). The study shows that blacks who commit crimes against whites are 4.5 times more likely to be prosecuted to the death penalty than whites who commit crimes against blacks.

In summary, most studies, despite their potential statistical limitations, tend ...