Not after the sentence was carried out. That usually puts a stop to any further criminal activity.
They are more likely to re-offend. Why would you care about not re-offending if you knew the day and the time you were going to die?
If it was me I would spend the little time I had planing how to make the time of everybody around me - including the staff - as terrifying as possible. Yeah, that would be the only achievable goal for me if I was sentenced to death. I'd set the place on fire even if I'd have to set myself on fire first in order to achieve that.
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You asked if Capital punishment is an effective punishment? NO. It's not productive to kill someone healthy and capable of being used for experiments or free labour. Capital punishment is one of the most stupid things ever invented if you think about it. What's the point in keeping someone well fed, clean, clothed, warm, comfortable and entertained for a few years and then kill it? It's a waste of money and time... I really don't get it why many people don't think the same - Oh yeah, they got "feelings"
Honestly....
No one reoffends after being executed.
The question is whether executions deter others from killing. There is no evidence that they do. Within the US, murder rates are higher in states that use the death penalty than in those that don't use it. Murder rates are also higher in the US than in nations that are demographically and economically similar to it: All of western Europe and Canada.
As of now, 142 wrongly convicted people on death rows in the US have been exonerated. We’ll never know for sure how many people have been executed for crimes they didn’t commit. Life without parole is available in nearly every state. It means exactly what it says. Two advantages:
--it costs much less than the death penalty
--an innocent person can be released from prison, not from the grave
The Broomstick Killer, Kenneth McDuff
http://www.crimemuseum.org/library/seria...
Recidivism among the executed is approximately 0%. That's what you wanted to hear, right?
But some innocent people have spent years on death row, and some have probably been executed. I support the death penalty, but only when you have 100% irrefutable proof. No mistakes!
And when you do have 100% irrefutable proof, you execute them the same day.
The papers are full of accounts of murderers from abroad claiming asylum in Britain. They don't get sent back because of their Human Rights.
I don't know if they become peaceful once they are here? I'd like to think so.
No-one re-offends after they are dead.
No, but later some were found to be innocent. They're still trying to revive them.
If you execute someone and they turn out to be innocent then I've no synpathy if their relativews come for revenge and wipe out the juries and judges families.
No, because they received the death penalty, they died, due to the death penalty they received. Unless they came back as a ghost, wooooooo, scary.
They have attacked and killed other people in prison. Thats about all they can do.
Just curious what the stats are for re-offending after recieving capital punishment.
