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Supporting Death Penalty for Crime Deterrence

This document discusses arguments in favor of the death penalty. It states that the death penalty should continue to eliminate dangerous criminals from society. While not all crimes deserve death, serial killers who kill for pleasure deserve capital punishment. The author supports the death penalty because they believe it deters crime by creating fear of the ultimate punishment, and it ensures public safety by removing criminals permanently.

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Supporting Death Penalty for Crime Deterrence

This document discusses arguments in favor of the death penalty. It states that the death penalty should continue to eliminate dangerous criminals from society. While not all crimes deserve death, serial killers who kill for pleasure deserve capital punishment. The author supports the death penalty because they believe it deters crime by creating fear of the ultimate punishment, and it ensures public safety by removing criminals permanently.

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Eliminating crime and criminals is our duty, and we cannot ignore it.

Getting the rightly accused


to a just punishment is very important. Some criminals commit a crime because they have no other
option to survive, but some do it for fun. I do not advocate death penalty for everybody. A person, who
stole bread from a grocery store, definitely does not deserve death penalty. However, a serial killer, who
kills people for fun or for his personal gain, definitely deserves death penalty. Death penalty should
continue in order to eliminate the garbage of our society. Not everybody deserves to die, but some
people definitely do. I support death penalty because of several reasons. Firstly, I believe that death
penalty serves as a deterrent and helps in reducing crime. Secondly, it is true that death penalty is
irreversible, but it is hard to kill a wrongly convicted person due to the several chances given to the
convicted to prove his innocence. Thirdly, death penalty assures safety of the society by eliminating
these criminals. Finally, I believe in "lex tallionis" - a life for a life.

Deterrence means to punish somebody as an example and to create fear in other people for the
punishment. Death penalty is one of those extreme punishments that would create fear in the mind of
any sane person. Ernest van den Haag, in his article "On Deterrence and the Death Penalty" mentions,
"One abstains from dangerous acts because of vague, inchoate, habitual and, above all, preconscious
fears" (193). Everybody fears death, even animals. Most criminals would think twice if they knew their
own lives were at stake. Although there is no statistical evidence that death penalty deters crime, but
we have to agree that most of us fear death. Suppose there is no death penalty in a state and life
imprisonment without parole is the maximum punishment.

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