What are the social benefits of capital punishments?
Question by Amazing Facsimile: What are the social benefits of capital punishments?
It doesn’t appear the death penalty reduces crime.
It isn’t appreciably more or less expensive than life imprisonment.
If we incarcerate an innocent person we can let them go. If we execute an innocent person, nothing can be done.
So, what social benefit does it serve?
Thanks.
Best answer:
Answer by Stephen
none the only benefit if you want to call it that is economic
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14 Responses to “What are the social benefits of capital punishments?”
Schmuck on July 22, 2011
Bad guy doesn’t get to be a bad guy anymore. All good things.
sandplant16 on July 22, 2011
No social benefits for the rational person. Revenge is a factor for irrational emotions and feeble mindedness.
Alex Tubruton on July 22, 2011
If the person was guilty, then we can rest assured that they won’t be able to murder anyone again.
Most of the death penalty cases seem pretty air tight – except for Texas and Illinois.
Robert Kerr on July 22, 2011
Maybe not a deterrent but if you put a bullet in it’s head it doesn’t get up and kill again. That’s one down.
Dr. Pepper on July 22, 2011
You don’t give guilty people the chance to get free and terrorize others ever again…though you may lose some innocents, the guilty WILL pay
Peace Sustainability on July 22, 2011
Years of expensive appeals at taxpayers expense, and sometimes we execute the wrong person. Capital punishment is wrong. There are no real social benefits. As you say, it doesn’t reduce crime.
In His Image on July 22, 2011
Simple…makes the world safer.
West of Encino on July 22, 2011
benefits are eliminating the scum
but the death penalty as done today is too good for the jerks.
fill a bathtub and slowly drop a live radio or tv into the tub
I like to watch skum of the earth squirm.
Huh on July 22, 2011
1. Will not be a repeat offender after sentence is served.
2. Will not be able to raise the next generation of criminal.
3. A new movie of the week will be produced creating many many jobs.
Nano Nano on July 22, 2011
None. Murder of a murderer, is still murder.
Common Sense Sammy on July 22, 2011
Bad Guys Dies.
Other Bad Guys who don’t wanna die don’t do bad guy thing.
SIMPLE
justgetitright on July 22, 2011
It reduces any future crimes of that sob we just executed and the mere threat of a death penalty has resulted in many many guilty plea bargains to avoid the death penalty saving untold sums of taxpayer money. Probably saving enough to keep him incarcerated until he dies.
“If we incarcerate an innocent person we can let them go. If we execute an innocent person, nothing can be done.”
That may have been the case for some one executed before the 1990′s now that we have DNA the innocent are not as likely to be found guilty.
You know though, that the only truly innocent that are put to death are the unborn children that are aborted. This is occurring at a rate of almost 1 million per year in the US and has topped 50 million since Roe vs Wade.
If you want to stop the death penalty, that is the one you should be working towards. Tell me what social benefit does abortion serve. You are willing to spend hundreds of thousands to support a criminal in prison but unwilling to spend roughly $ 100 thousand to support a child for 18 years.
I say kill the bastard and save the baby, at least my money is going to a good cause.
Susan S on July 22, 2011
It actually costs much more than life in prison.
It comes down to whether we should keep a system for the sake of retribution or revenge even though it isn’t effective in reducing violent crime, costs much more than alternatives and, worst of all, can lead to the nightmare of executing someone for a crime he didn’t commit.
dudleysharp on July 22, 2011
The anti death penalty arguments are false or the pro death penalty arguments are stronger. Proof below.
The death penalty is a just and appropriate sanction and it saves additional innocent lives.
ETHICAL/RELIGIOUS SUPPORT FOR THE DEATH PENALTY
“Death Penalty Support: Religious and Secular Scholars”
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2009/07/death-penalty-support-modern-catholic.html
“The Death Penalty: More Protection for Innocents”
http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/07/05/the-death-penalty-more-protection-for-innocents.aspx
Opponents in capital punishment have blood on their hands, Dennis Prager, 11/29/05, http://townhall.com/columnists/DennisPrager/2005/11/29/opponents_in_capital_punishment_have_blood_on_their_hands
DETERRENCE
All prospects of a negative outcome deter some. It is a truism. The death penalty, the most severe of criminal sanctions, is the least likely of all criminal sanctions to violate that truism.
27 recent studies finding for deterrence, Criminal Justice Legal Foundation,
http://www.cjlf.org/deathpenalty/DPDeterrence.htm
“Deterrence and the Death Penalty: A Reply to Radelet and Lacock”
http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/07/02/deterrence-and-the-death-penalty-a-reply-to-radelet-and-lacock.aspx
“Death Penalty, Deterrence