Balangue, Allen John C.

Section 61

Death Penalty will make the country prosper. Do you want your country to prosper? With the increasing
criminal rate and for the country to prosper, they sould do even a little process to move on. Imposing
death penalty instead of life imprisonment there will be fear on people to do a crime. Not only criminal
rate will decrease imposing death penalty also lessen the expenses of government and the police can
pay more attention to other problems in the country.

Arguments

Death Penalty decrease criminal rate

1. According to Michael Summers our recent research shows that each execution carried out is
correlated with about 74 fewer murders the following year... The study examined the relationship
between the number of executions and the number of murders in the U.S. for the 26-year period from
1979 to 2004, using data from publicly available FBI sources... There seems to be an obvious negative
correlation in that when executions increase, murders decrease, and when executions decrease,
murders increase

2. Professors H. Naci Mocan and R. Kaj Gittings of the University of Colorado at Denver have published
two studies confirming the deterrent effect of capital punishment. The first study used state-level data
from 1977 to 1997 to analyze the influence of executions, commutations, and removals from death row
on the incidence of murder. For each additional execution, on average, about five murders were
deterred. Alternatively, for each additional commutation, on average, five additional murders resulted.
A removal from death row by either state courts or the U.S. Supreme Court is associated with an
increase of one additional murder. Addressing criticism of their work, Professors Mocan and Gittings
conducted additional analyses and found that their original findings provided robust support for the
deterrent effect of capital punishment.

Death Penalty lessen the expenses of the government

2.

Death penalty would make the police work easier

1.

2.
Counter Arguments

The danger of executing the innocent rule out the death penalty

1.

2.

Death penalty is applied unjustifiably and ought not be utilized.

1. A statistical survey of death row prisoners issued in May 1997 by the Coalition Against the Death
Penalty in the Philippines (CADP)-an alliance of abolitionist NGOs-confirmed that the death penalty is
being applied disproportionately against the poor, disadvantaged and ill-educated. There is a grim
realisation that the patterns of the past appear about to be repeated-a study of the pre-abolition period
showed that of the 82 prisoners executed between 1926 and 1976, 92 per cent came from the lower
socio-economic sector.

2.

Conclusion

Imposing death penalty as a replacement of life imprisonment is a wise way to prosper even if there are

those who oppose this law like religion they will give the country a faster growth, save the people's

money, give the police attention to more important things like guarding in the streets that may provide

protection for those passing home from school or wherever they come from instead of guarding the

prisoners and lowering the criminal rate. It can bring many benefits in a country and the people.

The death penalty should be imposed instead of life imprisonment.

References

https://deathpenalty.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=000983

https://www.heritage.org/testimony/the-death-penalty-deters-crime-and-saves-lives

https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6a99f4.html