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Presented by

Mariana Meza Vásquez

Presented to

Carolina Montalvo Polonia

Inter B

Colombo - ENSC

Manizales, 04 de June 2020

 IS THE
death
penalty effective?

The death penalty is also known as capital punishment, which is a government-

sanctioned practice where a person is put to death by the state as a punishment and

consequence for a crime they are found guilty to have committed.

The death penalty is for convicted murderers, but many people now seem to prefer life

imprisonment as a punishment in contrast to the death penalty and I agree.

Is the death penalty effective? NO! Why are we going to 'punish' a murderer or

rapist, with the 'rest' of death? Why are we going to allow them to get so easily free to

pay for their acts? That's why the death penalty is not effective and although I love it

being legal around the world it is a punishment that has no effective response to these

criminals.

We can condemn to death a thousand murderers, a thousand rapists and yet we will

find a thousand more around the neighborhood

This conviction deters from crime. Countries that maintain the death penalty often

claim to be a form of deterrence against crime, but this stance has repeatedly been

discredited. There is no evidence to show that it is more effective than prison in

reducing crime.
 As a result of the above, several studies have been relaunched which have tried to

examine whether the death penalty acts as an effective deterrent or, if, on the

contrary, a prison sentence is better when the crime committed merits it. All

investigations found that crimes increased rather than reduced...

There is no clear evidence that the use of the death penalty is a deterrent to

crime. Nor does it seem to be cost-effective. There is also always the possibility that

an innocent person will be executed, as happened in March 1988 with Wille Darden in

Florida and in 1992 with Roger Coleman in Virginia.

In short, most studies tend to confirm that the death penalty is not a deterrent to

reducing crimes. So why are there people still supporting this option? In a democratic

and supposedly Christian society, the death penalty seems to follow the old motto of

"eye for eye and tooth for a tooth".