Dunban67 on 20 August 2016
i am for the death penalty but as it exist in the US it does not work to prevent crime but it does work well as a negotiating tool for prosecuters
The main reason the death penalty does not work as a deterent today is it takes so many years between being sentenced and actual administering and relative to the number of crimes comitted that are eligible for the death penalty, it is quite rare and infrequent that it is actually used
Honestly public hanging would work far better as a deterent-
