Deterrence Theorists and Capital Punishment

Suppressing theorists assume that killing is a reasonable act and when calculating losses or gains of murder, it is assumed that a potential criminal recognizes the death penalty and treats it as a stricter sanction than imprisonment. Murder is not the choice of most people, and always discourages, as the threat of human own death might outweigh the return of killing others. In addition, some famous supporters claim that the death penalty provides important educational functions in society by examining the dignity of human lives (Berns, 1979; van den Haag, 1975; van den Haag & Conrad , 1983).

General deterrent: The death penalty is considered a means of maintaining social order. There is no capital punishment in an orderly society. There is no statistical evidence that the death penalty is a deterrent. If the death penalty is actually a deterrent, then why are most of the death penalty committed by young men who executed the death penalty and lost their lives and not those who lost their lives only for several years . The fact that young people are emitting more dead than the elderly is a deterrent against the death penalty. The deterrence power generally makes a person accountable effectively for the behavior of others. "We will not punish you for what you did and we will punish you to prevent others from doing the same." Answer: "Why do others do the same thing Is it because of me? "

One theory is that the existence of the death penalty can effectively prevent planned murder, but the opposition does not. Today, there is no definitive proof of these two theories.

There are several reasons for opposing the death penalty, but the opponents believe that we should be sentenced to death. First of all, they insist that the death penalty is the deterrent of crime. They think capital punishment is a deterrent as people may consider bad results before illegal conduct. But this is not fact based. Scientists discovered that the prefrontal cortex can control a variety of behaviors (Raine, 1995). However, the prefrontal cortex is not very active in some murderous hands (Raine, 1995). They can neither think nor control about their behavior until they become killers (Raine, 1995). Furthermore, most police chiefs believe that the death penalty is not an effective deterrent (the debate on capital punishment continued in 1997). "Convicted criminals are executed, robbery, murder, violent crime has not decreased, secondly they are unfair to the victim unless the murderer is sentenced to death. believe.