Capital Punishment Deters Murder, And Is Just Retribution

Capital Punishment Deters murder, and Is Just Retribution


     Joe Smith

     January 3,1997


          Capital punishment, is the execution of criminals by the state, for

committing crimes, regarded so heinous, that this is the only acceptable

punishment.  Capital punishment does not only lower the murder rate, but it's

value as retribution alone is a good reason for handing out death sentences.

Support for the death penalty in the U.S. has risen to an average of 80%

according to an article written by Richard Worsnop, entitled "Death penalty

debate centres on Retribution", this figure is slightly lower in Canada where

support for the death penalty is at 72% of the population over 18 years of age,

as stated in article by Kirk Makir, in the March 26, 1987 edition of the Globe

and Mail, titled "B.C. MPs split on Death Penalty".

       The death penalty deters murder by putting the fear of death into would

be killers.  A person is less likely to do something, if he or she thinks that

harm will come to him.  Another way the death penalty deters murder, is the fact

that if the killer is dead, he will not be able to kill again.

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