I still support capital punishment

I support the death penalty, goes without saying that I am a firm retributionist. My simple belief, and I know most people also share it, if you deliberately take a life and you are then proven guilty beyond any reasonable doubt, then you should also simply forfeit your right to live.

The sentence should always be proportional to the severity of their crime.

Defenders of capital punishment are always quick to argue that capital punishment is not a deterrent. Ernest van den Haag, a law Professor at Fordham University who has studied the question of deterrence closely, wrote: “Even though statistical demonstrations are not conclusive, and perhaps cannot be, capital punishment is likely to deter more than other punishments because people fear death more than anything else. They fear most death deliberately inflicted by law and scheduled by the courts.’’ I agree.

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