01-24-2017, 04:45 AM
Unfortunately it has pretty well been proven that the death penalty is not a deterrent, as:
- a drug/alcohol addled person isn't thinking about consequences
- a planned murder often has an element of the perp thinking they won't get caught
- a multi murder (eg US school shooting) has no element of rationality behind it and the person killing doesn't care.
the number of innocent people on death row, depending on whose stats you read, is actually bigger than you may expect (between 5&10%, I think - may need to do some research to freshen the numbers)
There are too many variations for a black and white solution eg what if the person isn't 100% and doesn't understand what they have done is wrong?
- a drug/alcohol addled person isn't thinking about consequences
- a planned murder often has an element of the perp thinking they won't get caught
- a multi murder (eg US school shooting) has no element of rationality behind it and the person killing doesn't care.
the number of innocent people on death row, depending on whose stats you read, is actually bigger than you may expect (between 5&10%, I think - may need to do some research to freshen the numbers)
There are too many variations for a black and white solution eg what if the person isn't 100% and doesn't understand what they have done is wrong?