The debate on whether the death penalty deters and lowers rates of crime is a long-simmering one, with both sides variously ...

Iowans and their elected officials are doing nothing to protect both prison employees and inmates from death. So please ...

Capital punishment is often justified with the argument that by executing convicted murderers, we will deter would-be murderers from killing people. The statistical evidence doesn't confirm that ...

Even if capital punishment did act as a deterrent, is it acceptable for someone to pay for the predicted future crimes of others? Some people argue that one may as well punish innocent people ...

Retribution — society’s cathartic expression of a proportional response to attacks on its norms — is not, however, the only justification offered for capital punishment. Deterrence is another.

Proponents of the death penalty often claim that capital punishment serves as a deterrent to crime, yet this has not been ...

The order utilizes falsehoods about the deterrent character of capital punishment, as well as about its constitutionality, to outline a fascistic escalation of the already barbaric practice that ...

A subsequent poll by Omnisis found 43% of British respondents agreed capital punishment would be an effective deterrent. "When the UK first suspended the death penalty in 1965, many hoped that ...

But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it ...

Supreme Court Justice Abhay Oka criticized the Maharashtra government for its inadequate infrastructure for the judiciary, ...

Capital punishment has long been used in the U.S. as “the ultimate deterrent and only proper punishment for the vilest crimes. Our Founders knew well that only capital punishment can bring ...