Why The Death Penalty Is Good
There are some good arguments against the death penalty. 
I don't agree with them, but I can at least recognize a good argument when I hear one. This is not one of those arguments.
Maybe somebody could explain what's the point in death penalty in any given case. Does it prevent people from committing murder? Obviously not as demonstrated by the huge amount of violent deaths in USA.
I'm so tired of hearing this argument. Putting some criminals to death does prevent "people" from committing murder. Don't beleive me? Go read some statistics about the number of murders that happen inside prisons. I can guarantee that after we put McVeigh to death he will never kill another person. If we leave him in prison, can you make the same guarantee? Or maybe we aren't concerned about one prisoner killing another?
The death penalty is not some huge social engineering program designed to keep everyone from killing everyone else. It is an extreme penalty for an extreme crime designed to keep that one person from ever violating anyone elses civil rights. Thats all it needs to accomplish to be successful. If it has any other collateral effects, such as keeping others from committing murder, thats a bonus. The fact that it doesn't measurable enact that result, does not make the death penalty a failure.
I don't agree with them, but I can at least recognize a good argument when I hear one. This is not one of those arguments.Maybe somebody could explain what's the point in death penalty in any given case. Does it prevent people from committing murder? Obviously not as demonstrated by the huge amount of violent deaths in USA.
I'm so tired of hearing this argument. Putting some criminals to death does prevent "people" from committing murder. Don't beleive me? Go read some statistics about the number of murders that happen inside prisons. I can guarantee that after we put McVeigh to death he will never kill another person. If we leave him in prison, can you make the same guarantee? Or maybe we aren't concerned about one prisoner killing another?
The death penalty is not some huge social engineering program designed to keep everyone from killing everyone else. It is an extreme penalty for an extreme crime designed to keep that one person from ever violating anyone elses civil rights. Thats all it needs to accomplish to be successful. If it has any other collateral effects, such as keeping others from committing murder, thats a bonus. The fact that it doesn't measurable enact that result, does not make the death penalty a failure.
# | May 13, 2001