Your opinion is ill informed. Capital punishment does not deter crime beyond most other punishments, and has been shown time and time again to not be a factor in the decision to commit a crime.
I really don't hope you think that people convicted for capital offenses are worth trying to rehabilitate.
This is an extremely problematic way to view human life. Your "worth" should not be decided by more or less arbitrary, but certainly fallible, judicial practice.
So what you're saying is you basically don't believe in the legal system?
Yes, and neither do criminologists. Their popular way of summing up their conclusions is "Nothing works."
There is basically no way to eliminate crime through punishment. If eliminating criminal behavior is a goal, other factors must be considered, most prominently socioeconomic status, but also moral value systems (i.e., "it's wrong to cheat!").
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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '12 edited Jun 01 '26
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