Not in my view. States that carry out the death penalty do not necessarily have lower crime rates. Beyond that, recent DNA technology has shown that numerous persons who were sentenced to death didn't do the crime. Finally, there's the moral issue - "you shall not murder." (The fact that the criminal murdered someone doesn't make it okay for the State to do the same.)
Well the death penalty countries are lower as the people don't want to dye for a crime so.
The death penalty does in fact discourage some crime. In other cases people just do not care what will happen to them.
It is a death-penalty offense.
It is a death-penalty offense.
It is a death-penalty offense.
The death penalty is giving to thoses who have killed a person.
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Florida has a death penalty. The highest penalty possible for a capital crime is death.
It must be a felony in a state that uses death penalty. Death penalty is not common, mostly used with serial killers. Murder is the most common crime punished by death, but most of the cases are just sentenced to life in prison.
Dont commit a crime EVER.
Only if they are convicted of a crime that warrants the death penalty, such as murder (the same as straight people).
Yes it is. It's the penalty of death for a committed crime.