Effectiveness of Capital Punishment in Deterring Homicide Crimes
Countries and states that practice capital punishment (death penalty) express the rationale
it helps to deter homicide crimes (Ehrlich, 2017). The prop
...
Effectiveness of Capital Punishment in Deterring Homicide Crimes
Countries and states that practice capital punishment (death penalty) express the rationale
it helps to deter homicide crimes (Ehrlich, 2017). The proponents of death capital argue that the
risk of future execution is enough deterrent of homicide crimes because it reduces the number of
individuals who might be having intentions of involving themselves in heinous crimes they had
otherwise planned. However, this claim has encountered opposition, mainly because of the moral
and religious issues surrounding the death penalty (Nagin, 2018). Nevertheless, the opponents of
capital punishment claim that it is inhuman and that there are other options that can be put in
place as a way of punishing the homicide criminal and serving justice to the victims and their
families. For example, the homicide criminal could serve life imprisonment, which is humane
and less costly.
Additionally, capital punishment is a government program that comes with cost
implications. Although proponents of the death penalty claim that execution saves the
government money, the modern death penalty has established to be quite expensive (Ehrlich,
2017). Notably, there exists a few research discoveries indicating that capital punishment has
gotten expensive when contrasted with its expected advantages of daunting murder violations.
The costs related to the death penalty are getting to an ever-increasing extent. Hence, the
American death penalty framework is expensive to the citizens, and this makes one ask whether
capital punishment is worth or not. It is along these lines noteworthy that the administration
reexamines the financial significance of capital punishment in deflecting homicide crimes
(Bohm, 2016). Capital punishment is ineffective in deterring of homicide crimes, and it is
expensive when contrasted with life-detainment.
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