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Originally Posted by JavaBlack";p="
The death penalty makes no difference because the people they want to use it on are typically not afraid of death, at least not at the time they do their crime. Harsher penalties would only work on those who would see them as a loss, such as corporate criminals that only need to worry about a loss of money and a little vacation in soft prison. It would be more productive to put white collar criminals in nastier prisons than to execute the people who commit capital crimes.
When somebody kills you, he either thinks he's not getting caught or doesn't care if he lives or dies. Rather than worrying about the death penalty, we should start looking at a mix of more efficient police and courts and making life semi-bearable for people in crappy areas. That mix of carrots and sticks would make murder seem less rational to any candidate and would make it easier to get the ones who do it anyway. How we do it, I don't know, but that would have an effect. The death penalty is a cosmetic and aesthetic choice that is equally or less frightening than life imprisonment to some.
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If police and courts where made more effective, then we would have to worry about the issue of the death penalty more, seeing as how there would most likely be more people sentenced to death with more efficent police. No matter what tactics we use to minimize crime, it will still be there. So where do you stand when it comes to the death penalty? I have heard people argue against it by saying it is immoral. The government shouldn't worry about whether or not it right to kill a murder. They should be more concerned with the welfare of those not in prision, people contributing to society. If theres a man who takes another life, he is obviously a threat to others, and should be eliminated.