why death penalty should not be implemented?
132810
The vast preponderance of the evidence shows that the death penalty is no more effective than imprisonment in deterring murder and that it may even be an incitement to criminal violence. Death-penalty states as a group do not have lower rates of criminal homicide than non-death-penalty states.
431287
Those in support of capital punishment believe it deters crimes and, more often than not believe that certain crimes eliminate one's right to life. ... They also believe that the risk of executing an innocent person is too high.
1096452
Pointing out that the UK is campaigning for the abolition of the death penalty globally, he said: “There is no evidence that capital punishment acts as a deterrent to violent crime. Furthermore, the reintroduction of the death penalty would bring with it the very real risk that some innocent people would die.”
551087
['If someone murders someone else, they have given up their human rights, including the one to stay alive themselves.', "The punishment should 'fit the crime' - if you have killed someone, you should be killed too.", 'Giving a killer the death sentence will stop them - and others - doing it again.']
991725
The death penalty is also unjust because it is sometimes inflicted on innocent people. Since 1900, 350 people have been wrongly convicted of homicide or capital rape. The death penalty makes it impossible to remedy any such mistakes.
1174232
In most of the cases, death penalty can be avoided. ... Even if he is not reformed, life imprisonment can act as a severe punishment and also as a deterrent. 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.
50052
[' 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”.']
10205
['Value of human life.', 'Right to live.', 'Execution of the innocent.', 'Retribution is wrong.', 'Failure to deter.', 'Brutalising society.', 'Expense.', 'People not responsible for their acts.']
1335312
Some of those against capital punishment believe that human life is so valuable that even the worst murderers should not be deprived of the value of their lives. They believe that the value of the offender's life cannot be destroyed by the offender's bad conduct - even if they have killed someone.
751087
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. The general consensus among social scientists is that the deterrent effect of the death penalty is at best unproven.
558781
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.
382046
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.
574985
There is no international consensus on whether the death penalty should be abolished. Each country has the sovereign right to decide on its own judicial system, taking into account its own circumstances. The death penalty has been effective in keeping Singapore one of the safest places in the world to work and live in.
851049
The death penalty did reinstate crimes by two thirds therefore making the penalty a safer easy research paper. ... Also there is no chance of re-offending as the penalty of people who are willing to do such a crime will effectively be wiped out. A judge could death a man to life in prison.
1244769
Humanitarians and others, including practising lawyers, who advocate abolishing the death penalty should not be so concerned about the lives of murderers, brutal rapists, kidnappers and drug traffickers and ignore the countless number of violent and innocent deaths of victims caused by these criminals.
687265
Finally, the death penalty certainly "deters" the murderer who is executed. ... Vicious murderers must be killed to prevent them from murdering again, either in prison, or in society if they should get out. Both as a deterrent and as a form of permanent incapacitation, the death penalty helps to prevent future crime.
986483
Like those barbaric practices, executions have no place in a civilized society. It is unusual because only the United States of all the western industrialized nations engages in this punishment. It is also unusual because only a random sampling of convicted murderers in the United States receive a sentence of death.