Capital punishment, or the death penalty, can serve as a warning to deter people from committing heinous crimes. It probably does dissuade some people from murdering, but not in every case. Some people see all forms of capital punishment as inhumane, while some think that some are more humane than others. It can provide closure to the grieving families of murder victims, but it causes further agony for the innocent families of the perpetrator.
It is an argument in support of the death penalty sentence. The Best Bet Argument for the death penalty states that though we are not 100% sure that it (the death penalty) will deter or prevent future murders/crimes, we assume that as a fear for this maximum punishment, it will deter future crimes. Criminals will fear the idea of the death penalty and will therefore not commit murders.
No amendment "challenges" the death penalty. The 8th Amendment has been used as a legal basis for challenging the constitutionality of the death penalty. The argument is that the 8th Amendment prohibits "cruel and unusual punishment" and that the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment and therefore is prohibited by the US Constitution. This argument was successful in earlier cases, not because the death penalty itself was cruel and unusual but because of the way it was administered. The death penalty is allowed if it is administered without racial or ethnic bias and in a non-cruel manner.
People will get scared of them being killed so they do not do any crimes.
For. If most of the citizens in Texas did not want the death penalty, there would be no death penalty.
No,the state of Missouri does not have the death penalty.
No,the state of Nebraska does not have the death penalty.
Now, no death penalty in Romania.
no, you dont die with the death penalty
anti- death penalty i am a anti death penalty... because death penalty is not a human punishment..
No members of the EU use the Death Penalty.
Yes. Jamaica does have the death penalty.
A con of the death penalty is that it costs the taxpayers a lot of money. The death penalty also comes with moral concerns.