CHAPTER 2

Argument 8 (17)

The Death Penalty prevent with 100% efficiency the perpetrator from committing more crimes

Not even the most fanatical enemy of the death penalty can deny this obvious statement that a carried out death penalty means a definite stop of new crimes committed by the convict. A dead violent criminal can do no more harm to any other human being. No more murders or violent crimes, rapes or robberies or any other devilish act in this world.

And if every murderer would be arrested after the first murder and be sentenced to death, there would no longer be any serial killers. No country will of course get there. But if a country introduces the capital punishment and applies it fairly and consequently, serial killers and violent criminals will be fewer. This is unavoidable fact.

Someone may object and say that this is also the case with lifetime in prison. But this is wrong by the following reasons:

In most countries lifetime never really is lifetime, but a certain number of years in prison. And relapse into crime after being released is common.

If there is an escape it usually leads to new crimes.

Sometimes crimes take place during leaves.

Acts of violence and murder sometimes take place in prison.

Besides the fact that lifetime in prison isn’t a just punishment for a violent criminal or a murderer, one could ask if there should be the slightest possibility for such a person to have the ability to commit new crimes? We think not. And there is no more efficient solution for such a problem than the death penalty if we wish to keep him from committing further crimes.

Surveys show that violent criminals and murderers who have been sentenced to prison and later released relatively often relapse into crimes.(1) 

A death penalty system used consistently would mean that a large part of crimes would be avoided and we would thereby have a safer society.

Every dedicated enemy of the death penalty who is part of and actively sustains a judicial system that excludes the capital punishment can be said to have bloodstained hands. Since the capital punishment was abolished in Western Europe, injury or death has victimized many thousands of innocent people, and even more relatives to these victims have suffered. This is because of a legal system that makes it possible for murderers and violent criminals to commit new heinous crimes.(2)

There is an efficient way of ending this meaningless spiral of crime where the most ruthless criminals can commit new crimes, and it is when there is a consistent use of the death penalty. 

We would then have a slightly kinder world to live in with a little fewer crimes. 

Footnote 1. More of this in Argument 15. Back.