ICB Blog 2: Does The Death Penalty Prevent Crime? (Kevin)

The death penalty does not always prevent crime from happening in the country, at least not today, because if it did then criminals wouldn’t still be doing the crime that gets them sentenced to it. One person getting executed for comitting crimes should be an example to other people but, these crimes are still happening daily. Yes the death penalty stops the person who was killed by it from commiting crimes but it does not nessesarly deter the minds of other criminals nor their intentions. A lot of people commit crimes on impulse without thinking or caring about the consequenses of their actions. The death penalty is more of a punishment for a criminal than a way to scare others anyway.  Fear of the death penalty may cause a few to hesitate committing crimes but defiantly not all. Another reason why the death penalty does not prevent crimes is because the justice system does not enforce it as much as they use to. Today If a criminal commited a “Death Penalty” worthy crime such as first degree murder but the judge only sentences him to some years in prison then it would not put as much fear into the society and people that commit the crimes because they know that they would not lose their life and have a posibility of getting out of prison.