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Won't help. It's a populist request, but a majority of experts, the criminologists, are convinced that the death penalty for example is not a deterrent. A sou
by _nalply 10y ago
Won't help.
It's a populist request, but a majority of experts, the criminologists, are convinced that the death penalty for example is not a deterrent.
A source (one of many): http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/study-88-criminologists-do-not-believe-death-penalty-effective-deterrent http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/study-88-criminologists-do-n...
- mgarfias 10y agoDevils Advocate here (I don’t personally believe in the state run death penalty): Maybe its not about deterrent as it is getting an abhorrent person out of society permanently?
- _nalply 10y agoAcknowledged. I come back with a pointer to the trolley problem: Should someone act to kill the perpetrator to save a number of people from being killed by the perpetrator in the future?
- gambiting 10y agoThe argument against that is that lifetime imprisonment serves the exact same goal, and gets rid of the nasty issue of killing people who are found innocent 20 years later, as it sometimes happens. If I recall correctly, the process of actually executing the death penalty is so expensive it's not even cheaper than lifetime imprisonment anyway.
- Retric 10y agoHumans have been becoming dramatically less violent over time. So, it may act as evolutionary pressure even if it's not as useful right now.