reasons for why the death penalty is good?
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It makes it impossible for criminals to do bad things over and over again. Executing someone permanently stops the worst criminals and means we can all feel safer, as they can't commit any more crimes. If they were in prison they might escape, or be let out for good behaviour.
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Evidence from around the world has shown that the death penalty has no unique deterrent effect on crime. Many people have argued that abolishing the death penalty leads to higher crime rates, but studies in the USA and Canada, for instance, do not back this up.
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Hence drawing a conclusion that death penalty is not a good form of deterrence and cannot deter people from committing crimes. Many types of research have shown that the capital punishment as well life imprisonment have the same deterrence effect.
670022
 There's no concrete evidence showing that the death penalty actually deters crime. Various studies comparing crime and murder rates in U.S. states that have the death penalty versus those that don't found very little difference between the two.
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['Capital punishment is irreversible. ... ', 'Taking immediate action on the criminals and imposing severe punishments can act as deterrent, but not death penalty.', 'Capital punishment interprets society as violent cultured, blood thirsty and revengeful.', 'Justice will not be achieved by death penalty.']
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Reasons to abolish the death penalty Execution is the ultimate, irrevocable punishment: the risk of executing an innocent person can never be eliminated. Since 1973, for example, more than 160 prisoners sent to death row in the USA have later been exonerated or released from death row on grounds of innocence.
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Finally, the death penalty certainly "deters" the murderer who is executed. ... Vicious murderers must be killed to prevent them from murdering again, either in prison, or in society if they should get out. Both as a deterrent and as a form of permanent incapacitation, the death penalty helps to prevent future crime.
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The death penalty makes it impossible for criminals to do bad things over and over again. Executing someone permanently stops the worst criminals and means we can all feel safer, as they can't commit any more crimes.
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25. Pros of Death Penalty  It deters bad people to commit heinous crimes.  The government need not spend for criminals who are murderers and such.  It can increase the peace, law and order, and help to decrease the crime rate of the state.
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The death penalty is an asset to society; it deters potential criminals as well as serves retribution to criminals, and is in no way immoral. ... It is important that the nation is united on this issue, rather than having some states use capital punishment while others do not.
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['There is a better alternative: life without parole. ... ', 'The death penalty puts innocent lives at risk. ... ', 'Race and place determine who lives and who dies. ... ', 'We pay many millions for the death penalty system. ... ', 'Poor quality defense leaves many sentenced to death. ... ', 'Capital punishment does not deter crime.']
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The proponents of the death penalty believe that people are not going to commit murders if the punishment for the murder was that they were going to get executed. ... This is another very important reason why the death penalty should be abolished because it is extremely expensive for the government and the people.
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The advantages of capital punishment are that they give people an idea of what the law is capable of doing and the criminal can never escape from the punishment no matter who he/she is. In addition, anyone who is thinking about committing a crime will think twice before committing a crime.
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The death penalty doesn't seem to deter people from committing serious violent crimes. The thing that deters is the likelihood of being caught and punished. The general consensus among social scientists is that the deterrent effect of the death penalty is at best unproven.
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That said, the death penalty serves three legitimate penological objectives: general deterrence, specific deterrence, and retribution.
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['Value of human life.', 'The right to live.', 'Execution of the innocent.', 'Retribution is wrong.', 'Deterrence.', 'It brutalises society.', "It's too expensive.", 'People not responsible for their acts.']
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Some proponents of capital punishment argue that capital punishment is beneficial even if it has no deterrent effect. ... If we fail to execute murderers, and doing so would in fact have deterred other murders, we have allowed the killing of a bunch of innocent victims.