What is the importance of death penalty?

Answer 1

The death penalty is among the oldest criminal punishments. It served three purposes : to punish a crime, to prevent its repetition, and to discourage crimes. The modern death penalty is imposed for similar reasons. However, the irreversible taking of a life is today considered abhorrent in criminal justice systems, notwithstanding the equally cruel prospect of life imprisonment. The basic objection to current death penalty laws are their inconsistent application, either by crime or by ethnicity.

Answer 2

Deterrence.

Its purpose is righteousness. It's a divine injunction that goes back to the immediate aftermath of the Noatian Flood. The society that upholds it is a society that is, at least in part, obeying that injunction and that God. See Genesis 9:5,6

Answer 3

There are a number of arguments for why capital punishment should be used. Retentionists argue that it is the only way to be certain the convicted will never kill again. Also, they argue that executing the defendant provides closure to the families. However, retentionists #1 argument is retribution. The idea is that they are serving justice and that this person has intentionally taken life, a heinous crime, and thus deserves to die. Louis P. Pojman, a leading death penalty scholar, wrote about the topic in his article Why The Death Penalty is Morally Permissible, which was in the book Debating the Death Penalty. He asserts that retributivists believe 3 things; that the guilty deserve to be punished, only the guilty deserve to be punished, and they deserve to be punished proportionally to their crime. If you would like to know more about the topic, you should read the book I mentioned, or one of the other books or articles by Pojman or Hugo Adam Bedau, or you could go check the Wikipedia page for Capital Punishment Debate, it has plenty of good information, with references to other articles you can read up on.

Answer 4

In theory the purpose of the death penalty is to keep one person from murdering another. The death penalty is applied for premeditated murder or murder committed during a felony. Since it is usually committed by a person with Sociopathic Personality Disorder, the theory is total nonsense. An individual with that Psychotic Condition acts without considering the consequences. Sure, that person should be locked away to protect society from him, but he should not have millions spent on him for all sorts of lawyers to present all sorts of appeals before the state kills him. The Death Penalty actually exists to either get politicians elected to office or to keep them in office. It also exists to make lawyers rich.

Answer 5

There are a number of significant reasons why the death penalty is still inflicted in some jurisdictions. They are as follows:1. Some crimes are so repugnant that the public tends to feel that only death will be an adequate punishment.

2. If criminals fear that they may be executed, they may be more hesitant to commit serious crimes.

3. Once a criminal is executed, you can be certain that he or she will never commit any more crimes. You may think that life imprisonment also prevents people from committing any more crimes, but that strategy sometimes fails, since people do sometimes escape from prison, and since even if people do not escape from prison they may commit crimes while in prison, such as murdering a guard, for example.

4. The cost of keeping people in prison is very high (it is generally around $50,000 a year, believe it or not, although this does vary by jurisdiction) and once someone is executed, you can stop spending money on that person. Since some people spend decades in prison, the savings can be substantial.

Answer 6

restridution,detererrence,incapacitation ,and rehabilitation…

Answer 7

For me death penalty is importance because it lessen the crime that has a certain country

Answer 8

The death penalty came into force, as there were to many murders, and the state of Law and Order was not there. This was to put freight into the crimnals and it worked very well.