Death Penalty

I believe the death penalty does help prevent crimes a little. Its just thank we can never really be sure. There are crimes and murders still being committed even with the death penalty out there so people can argue that it doesn’t. All we know for certain is that the victims of the death penalty will no longer be committing any more crimes. But in reality that isn’t insuring enough. And the death penalty isn’t scaring shop lifters, bad drivers, or drug dealers into a crimeless life. They cant even be touched by the death penalty and those are the crimes that are being committed the most.  Maybe If every crime was eligible of the death penalty THEN id say it would help prevent crimes. Everyone would be too scared to do anything! As for the families of the crime victims.. I don’t think they should be able to chose if the murderer gets the death penalty or not. All they would have going through their minds is revenge. Most families would give the death penalty to any and all murders and that wouldn’t be fair at all just because their emotions would be all up in a bunch. And the families should definitely not be able to pull the switch that ends the prisoners. That’s not something that should be put in the hands of a regular citizen, a government official or some type of law enforcer should be held responsible of doing so.