What is the effectiveness of capital punishment as a form of punishment?

Answer 1

if you mean how effective of a deterrent it is. it isn't.

states that execute more prisoners have slightly lower violent crime rates than the less hang happy states, but states without the death penalty at all average substantially lower violent crime rates.

Answer 2

That question is very controversial. Though in my opinion I think that the death penalty doesnt help at all in any way possible. Because if you are sentenced to the death penalty and you were to die in the electric chair, would it teach you anything or would you care if you were dieing because it would be instant death and you don't feel anything. It wouldn't teach you anything and for one, if you were for example, in a high security prison vault with no social contact to the outside world, would that be a better and more reasonable punishment for you would be living through what you did and would never do that again. Also, other people would learn that they would have to be put through that forever if they were caught and that would scare off people and the crimes would go down. Right now, the death penalty isn't scaring off any criminals. In fact, the crimes in America are going UP fast and gangs are breaking out. Also, the death penalty cost over 180 million just to kill 5 people with the electric chair. That money ends up being paid back by regular peoples TAX money. If we were to put the criminals in prison, we would be saving around $240 million. And that money could go to crime fields and to the FBI or CIA or Police to search and stop crimes from happening. I hope that this helped. :)

the world isn't getting smaller and jail are already full we spend money on new jail and then just set the criminals out to do the crimes again, why? why not put them in the ground and get over with it

Answer 3

That is a very opinionated and touchy question... . You should decide for yourself, and if this is for an essay or something, look for chat rooms, or blogs, or research cases that support YOUR idea.

Answer 4

Death penalty is not safe, but it is indeed effective, it causes people [ Mostly criminals ] to raise there awareness to not create such crimes or they will receive the same punishment as the person that got the death penalty.

Answer 5

yes it is but if the accused is innocent, they will die for no reason and the family will suffer

Answer 6

It is effective.

Nobody's ever committed another crime after experiencing this punishment.

Answer 7

No one who has undergone capital punishment has re-offended. Ever