Why should the Death Penalty laws be stricter in CT

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Why should the Death Penalty laws be stricter in CT

Death penalty is a crime control mechanism where criminals convicted of committing serious crimes are punished by death . Death penalty as a crime control method is legal in Connecticut but the irony is that though crime prevalence in this region is still high , only one person has been executed since post Furman period or since 1976 . Proponents of death penalty maintain that it controls and reduces crime levels by acting as a deterrent

and that is why this law should be enforced and not abolished in this state

There is no good explanation that can be given as to why death penalty in Connecticut fails to work in controlling crime taking into consideration that the only execution that has been done in this state since 1976 was of a rapist and a serial killer , Michael Bross Ross in 2005 . In states where there are stricter death penalty laws , crime rate is lower that in states where there is laxity in the law like in the case of Connecticut . When the trend of crime in Connecticut is looked closely , it is evident that the rate of crime has increased in the recent past unlike it was the case in the 1960s when criminals were frequently executed . According to the UCR Crime Statistics that were released by the Disaster Center in 2008 , it is clear that indeed this is the case for example in 1960 the number...