Do you support the death penalty?

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Pemalite said:

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.

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.

 

Homicide rates are not a good way to justify pro/against the death penalty. In Canada the homicide and attempted murder rate rose dramatically in the late 1960s. In 1963 the government ceased capital punishment as policy and in 1967 placed a moratorium. If you believe that the death penalty is a crime deterrent then the below chart will support that argument.

However this chart shows that the homicide rate has been increasing since the 1950s so perhaps it does not work as a deterrent.