| Dota2Gamer said: Singapore has mandatory death sentence to any person being found with more than enough weight of illegal drugs. Singapore is one of the country with lowest prevalence of drug abuse. I don't buy this "Death penalty is expensive" or "death penalty is not a crime deterrent". I've googled the sources and they are from groups or websites with agenda, give me a break. |
And yet... The United States has the Death Penalty and it has some of the highest incarceration rates in the world.
Australia used to have the Death Penalty. Crime didn't suddenly skyrocket once we abolished it.
https://theconversation.com/theres-no-evidence-that-death-penalty-is-a-deterrent-against-crime-43227
http://www.abc.net.au/news/factcheck/2015-02-26/fact-check3a-does-the-death-penalty-deter3f/6116030
https://www.crikey.com.au/2005/11/28/death-penalty-facts-and-figures/
And I quote:
| In Canada, for example, the homicide rate per 100,000 population fell from a peak of 3.09 in 1975, the year before the abolition of the death penalty for murder, to 2.41 in 1980, and since then it has declined further. In 2003, 27 years after abolition, the homicide rate was 1.73 per 100,000 population, 44 per cent lower than in 1975 and the lowest rate in three decades. |
So. What is the real reason that the US government spends months/years and billions on executing people?
It's clearly not working as an adequate deterrent if the 100+ countries that have abolished the death penalty are the evidence that we can go by.
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