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No one plans or carries out a crime with the deterrent in mind. The idea is to get away with it, or get killed .... or the crime had an unintended consequence.
The death penalty makes the survivors and society (or at least some people in society) feel better .... like they are doing something proactive to prevent future crime. They aren't actually, but it's one of those lovely societal delusions that we all fall into because .... well, just because.
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I like to bring up two point around this if I can
1) when every one can have guns it seems to me that crimals (<.> cant spell). are more likly to think they may die from robing somone(or other crimes). that is why you see some crime rates go down in areas with more guns( base on what I have seen in number dont have any to back me up right now and what I have seen in the area where I live). I know that the people that rob places see if you have guns if you do they skip your home in this area (like 15mins from the cops so that most people do have guns) . just smart realy(exp junkys that dont realy do this but not that kind of area here.).
2) I think the point is if you put somone to death they will not be able to do any more crime. even if somone gets life (and our not that old) in our system the way it is they will still get out more then likly before they die. with death at that point you our sure that will not happen.