Is capital punishment a crime deterrent?

Is Capital Punishment a Crime Deterrent

With exponentially increasing crime rate , is there any other effective way that the government could take so as to assure the safety of its citizens ? The government , powerful at it is , may any time at any cause vanquish a convicted criminal 's life , with of course , proper jurisdiction by the law . But is it really so ? Aren 't these so-called criminals also citizens of the states whose lives should be under its protection ? Capital punishment , though can be traced back to as early as time immemorial

at the time of Moses where he destroyed the Egyptian army as punishment for the evil deeds . It can also be read from the bible incidences , that God himself destroyed the sinful city of Ghora among other biblical stories like taking Israelites lives as punishment for their sins Capital punishment or death penalty was introduced by Europeans specifically , the British , the first of which , was in 1608 . It was in the late 1960 's when capital punishment was authorized in America 's 10 states , with an average of 130 in-rows per year mostly were cases of murder , rape and desertion (Green , Melissa S .2005 . In 1999 alone about 99 inmates were executed . A to death since it was introduced It was late in 1967 when questions regarding the legalities of the act arise , and was claimed to be in contradiction with the Eight Amendment to the US Constitution . And long has been a bone of contention between the state and the church for many years because of its cruel nature and which is against the will of God . Debate on how justice is being served and how death penalty is being applied has been increasingly getting the attention of the public

Death penalty , before being imposed must be well imposed by a competent room and supported by adequate evidence that is unquestionable in nature . Everything must be done with much safeguard

Death penalty is imposed to punish the offender and doing or imitation of such act will be discouraged . It instills fear to others that committing crimes won 't be in any circumstance tolerated by the state And in a way , gives a sense of security to innocent citizens that they are safe from any harm . But what if the innocent himself was the one convicted to death ? A 1987 study presented evidence that 350 people convicted of capital crimes in the USA between 1900 and 1985 were innocent of the crimes charged . In most cases the discovery of new evidence resulted in acquittal . Some prisoners escaped execution by minutes , but 23 were actually executed ( Stanford Law Review , vol . 40 No . 1 , November 1987 , pages 21-179 . Extracted from : When the State Kills . The death penalty : a human rights issue , Amnesty International 1989

In a recent statistics , around 35 mentally challenged individuals were executed in the United States . Do these people deserve such grave punishment when at their old age have an IQ of a 7 year old child...