Man released after 3 years for murder he didn't do

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Originally Posted by August

The way i see it, the death penalty has never stopped murders, even in countries with no appeal and instant execution of sentence. This is because people rarely commit such crimes with the expectation they'll be caught.

If criminal penalties have any effect at all then the prospect of spending the rest of ones life in the hell called prison is as much if not more of a deterrent.

Again I disagree. You can find results that show both persepctives as being effective or ineffective. Deterrant is easily proved however if you look at laws from harsher countries. Take the Middle East - Saidi Arabia - for example, no one steals anything there - ever. Why? Penalty is to remove ones hand. Fast forward to England where there is little punishment and crime runs rampant - their statistics are displayed as a comparrison by our own FBI.

Anyone who knowingly commits a crime always considers the reprocussions. I don't buy the argument of thinking that they won't get caught. They probably analyze and weigh the risks.