If that was true, then places with an imposed death penalty would have lower crime rates, which is certainly not the case. The data is inconclusive. Most of the time, when someone commits a serious felony (say, murder), they don't make a list of pros and cons and decide which would be a better choice.
There's also the issue of the advent of DNA testing, and how we're discovering how often our verdicts are incorrect, and how often we've executed innocent people. But that's a whole other story.
Well, duh, most people who commit crimes don't consider the consequences beforehand, whether it be death or whatever.
That doesn't make the death penalty worthless. It still serves a purpose, which is to get rid of these people and not pay for them to live thier entire life out on taxpayer money.
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If that was true, then places with an imposed death penalty would have lower crime rates, which is certainly not the case. The data is inconclusive. Most of the time, when someone commits a serious felony (say, murder), they don't make a list of pros and cons and decide which would be a better choice.
There's also the issue of the advent of DNA testing, and how we're discovering how often our verdicts are incorrect, and how often we've executed innocent people. But that's a whole other story.
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Well, duh, most people who commit crimes don't consider the consequences beforehand, whether it be death or whatever.
That doesn't make the death penalty worthless. It still serves a purpose, which is to get rid of these people and not pay for them to live thier entire life out on taxpayer money.