should capital punishment be legal debate?
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Capital punishment should be legal in case of murder. ... For them, justice will never be served until the murderer is put to death. Objection There are a lot of people who would want the death penalty for a lot of other crimes, even (relatively) trivial crimes. Justice is not about just following the victims' wishes.
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["You can't take it back. The death penalty is irreversible. ... ", "It doesn't deter criminals. There is no credible evidence that the death penalty deters crime more effectively than a prison term. ... ", "There's no 'humane' way to kill. ... ", "It makes a public spectacle of an individual's death. ... ", 'The death penalty is disappearing.']
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Originally Answered: Should capital punishment be banned in India? Yes, it should be. Capital punishment is not a deterrent. If the person found guilty is executed, this will not prevent another criminal from doing the same crime.
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The death penalty, also called capital punishment, is when a government or state puts a person to death because they've committed a serious crime.
187662
Most of the civilised world has abolished it. India certainly does not need it as it serves no purpose. No study has shown that the death penalty deters murder more than life imprisonment. ... For deterrence to work, the severity of the punishment has to coexist with the certainty and swiftness of the punishment.
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[' The death penalty is absurd and cruel. ... ', ' The death penalty is degrading. ... ', ' High profile cases, often with racial undertones, create political pressures that can lead to police and prosecutor misconduct. ... ', ' It is not limited to the “worst of the worst”.']
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A: No, there is no credible evidence that the death penalty deters crime more effectively than long terms of imprisonment. States that have death penalty laws do not have lower crime rates or murder rates than states without such laws.
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Abolishing the death penalty will only send the wrong signal to those who have the predisposition to commit horrible crimes. Sparing the lives of hardcore criminals for humanitarian reasons will only cause more misery for others. It will see an escalation of serious crimes in our society, further impairing the nation.
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Reasons to abolish the death penalty Execution is the ultimate, irrevocable punishment: the risk of executing an innocent person can never be eliminated. ... Others have been executed despite serious doubts about their guilt. It does not deter crime.
1280642
Should India abolish the death penalty? ... His appalling crime of gunning down innocents surely qualifies as a "rarest of the rare crime", a condition for handing out the death penalty in India. But, as critics of capital punishment say, there's no evidence to show that the death penalty deters crime.
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Arguments against the Death Penalty There's no concrete evidence showing that the death penalty actually deters crime. ... These inconclusive findings mean that capital punishment may or may not be a deterrent for crime. No definitive answer is reason enough to abolish it.
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The death penalty is an asset to society; it deters potential criminals as well as serves retribution to criminals, and is in no way immoral. ... It is important that the nation is united on this issue, rather than having some states use capital punishment while others do not.
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Supporters to abolish the death penalty or capital punishment also see it as an ineffective way to stop and deter crime. ... It is also argued by abolitionist to death penalty that murderers or criminals do not think rationally enough that would stop themselves from their crime despite the penalty.
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In most of the cases, death penalty can be avoided. Life imprisonment is the best alternative for the capital punishment. ... However the criminals, who do heinous crimes and are incapable of being reformed must be given death penalty, because they don't deserve to live, not even in prison.
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The death penalty was originally a hanging punishment in 400 ad in Anglo-Saxon Britain and was abolished in 1965. ... The penalty should be brought back to reduce the regular occurrence of serious crime, murder.
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If problems arise in particular cases, they should be corrected—and often are. That said, the death penalty serves three legitimate penological objectives: general deterrence, specific deterrence, and retribution.
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The death penalty doesn't seem to deter people from committing serious violent crimes. The thing that deters is the likelihood of being caught and punished. ... ...research has failed to provide scientific proof that executions have a greater deterrent effect than life imprisonment.