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I think death is enough of a punishment ,to be honest, but some may disagree. The death penalty would indeed be a deterrent, but there is another reason I support it:
Suppose a multiple murderer, who's killed a relative of yours, amongst many other people, is sent to jail. Who pays to keep him alive in jail? You, the relative of the victim, by paynig taxes to fund the prison upkeep. Or, even if you're totally unconnected to the crime, you're still paying taxes to keep a bottom of the gutter criminal alive, who will never amount to anything in society and has already committed one of the most horrific crimes imaginable. And he may even get out of jail eventually, certainly in the UK he might. How is that justice? 25-30 years in prison for killing someone, or several people? Death is hypocritical, yes, but what alternative is there for such a scumbag? A 25 year 'life' sentence in this day and age is nothing.
Only the other day there was a news story about 3 16, 17 and 19 year olds getting barely 20 years in jail each for murdering somebody. How is that justice? If you can murder for no reason at that age, you'll never reform, you were an asshole from the start. Those pieces of crap will get out of jail before they're 40, and will be able to live a life again and possibly commit further crimes. Their victim desn't start living again when they get out.
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I apologise for my lexical ambiguity, I object to the idea of capital punishment being viewed as as a deterrent because firstly; no seriour criminal would ever factor in the chance they may get caught into their plans, and secondly because, statistically speaking, crimes are more common in individualistic cultures that support the death penalty, I realise I am making a tenuous link between correlation and causation here but the point I'm trying to get across is that Capital Punishment simply does not work as a deterrent.
By prevention I meant the simple fact that no dead rapist/terrorist will ever do it again. Oh and your reasons lend weight to that argument, I do not believe in the death penalty for murderers, 'crimes of passion' are just the simple length any man will go to if pushed far enough (Note; this is not an
excuse it is a reason, this is the point of reasoning where the idea of punishment and rehabilitation come in) and cold blooded murderers are a biological abnormality, which just isn't treatable for the present. I only swing towards the idea of Capital Punishment as prevention where rapists, terrorists, torturers and practising paedophiles are concerned.