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Do you think public execution would deter crime?

Nope. The average criminal doesn't stop to think, "Hey, I may hang for this!" before stabbing someone in a fit of rage and/or intoxication.

Edit: Not that I wouldn't still support it.
 
The only way to deter crime is to make it immediately financially advantageous for poor, uneducated Americans to get an education and stay off the streets rather than break into cars and steal people's wallets. Money talks. Public execution wouldn't do anything.
 
The death penalty isn't supposed to be a deterrent. It's a punishment. So public or private, an execution isn't going to deter anyone from comitting a capitol crime.
 
Originally posted by: yllus
Nope. The average criminal doesn't stop to think, "Hey, I may hang for this!" before stabbing someone in a fit of rage and/or intoxication.
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because right now they know the most they'll get is a few months or years in prison.
 
Speaking of the death penalty deterring crime, I read something very interesting in Freakonomics. You have a higher chance of dying dealing crack in Chicago than you do on death row in Texas.
 
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
The death penalty isn't supposed to be a deterrent. It's a punishment. So public or private, an execution isn't going to deter anyone from comitting a capitol crime.
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No, it's definitely supposed to deter people from committing crimes. The whole purpose of punishment is deterrence. Read about Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon idea.
 
I think about the only way to improve on the current system is to a) make it more accurate, and b) provide *IMMEDIATE* executions.

If you are found guilty, they simply march you out of the courtroom and execute you in an adjoining room. But until we improve our actual accuracy of conviciton, we'll be killing a lot of the wrong people.
 
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: yllus
Nope. The average criminal doesn't stop to think, "Hey, I may hang for this!" before stabbing someone in a fit of rage and/or intoxication.
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because right now they know the most they'll get is a few months or years in prison.
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If you think your sentencing system sucks, you should take a look at what we've got in Canada.

Nonetheless, it's still going to have no useful deterring effect. A significant number of people don't plan crimes that lead to execution; and a larger number of people don't plan to get caught.
 
Originally posted by: jumpr
The only way to deter crime is to make it immediately financially advantageous for poor, uneducated Americans to get an education and stay off the streets rather than break into cars and steal people's wallets. Money talks. Public execution wouldn't do anything.
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Because only poor, uneducated Americans commit crimes? 😕
 
Originally posted by: sixone
Originally posted by: jumpr
The only way to deter crime is to make it immediately financially advantageous for poor, uneducated Americans to get an education and stay off the streets rather than break into cars and steal people's wallets. Money talks. Public execution wouldn't do anything.
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Because only poor, uneducated Americans commit crimes? 😕
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They commit the vast majority of them.
 
Most crimes that can receive capital punishment as a sentence probably would not be deterred by public executions. I don't really see what capital punishment accomplishes other than to "legalize" revenge killings.
 
I'm against the death penalty in all situations. The biggest thing you'd get with public exections would be a huge public outcry and probably alot more people moving to being against the death penalty after watching someone die for the first time.
 
I don't think it would deter crime. I'm for the death penalty, but I'm not for public hangings. We don't need everyone to see even more violence than they already do.
 
Originally posted by: jman19
Most crimes that can receive capital punishment as a sentence probably would not be deterred by public executions. I don't really see what capital punishment accomplishes other than to "legalize" revenge killings.
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If you had immediate executions you wouldn't have guys sitting on death row for decades sucking up cell space and tax payer money.
 
I dont think it would deter crime at all. What difference is an execution in public from an execution in private? In other countries, I think the one of the main reasons why executions are public is to embarress and dishonor the name of the person being executed. I'd like to think we're more civilized than that here in America.
 
Executions happen so rarely that each time one happens, it's so publicized that it's almost a public exection.

The only way the death penalty could deter crime is if every single person convicted of murder got the death penalty.
 
Originally posted by: vi_edit
Originally posted by: jman19
Most crimes that can receive capital punishment as a sentence probably would not be deterred by public executions. I don't really see what capital punishment accomplishes other than to "legalize" revenge killings.
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If you had immediate executions you wouldn't have guys sitting on death row for decades sucking up cell space and tax payer money.
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"Immediate executions" aren't legal for a reason.
 
Originally posted by: vi_edit
Originally posted by: jman19
Most crimes that can receive capital punishment as a sentence probably would not be deterred by public executions. I don't really see what capital punishment accomplishes other than to "legalize" revenge killings.
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If you had immediate executions you wouldn't have guys sitting on death row for decades sucking up cell space and tax payer money.
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If you had immediate executions, you'd have as many innocent people getting killed as guilty ones.
 
Originally posted by: yowolabi
Originally posted by: vi_edit
Originally posted by: jman19
Most crimes that can receive capital punishment as a sentence probably would not be deterred by public executions. I don't really see what capital punishment accomplishes other than to "legalize" revenge killings.
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If you had immediate executions you wouldn't have guys sitting on death row for decades sucking up cell space and tax payer money.
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If you had immediate executions, you'd have as many innocent people getting killed as guilty ones.
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Maybe not "as many" but you certainly would be denying those people their right to a fair appeals process.
 
Originally posted by: yowolabi
Originally posted by: vi_edit
Originally posted by: jman19
Most crimes that can receive capital punishment as a sentence probably would not be deterred by public executions. I don't really see what capital punishment accomplishes other than to "legalize" revenge killings.
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If you had immediate executions you wouldn't have guys sitting on death row for decades sucking up cell space and tax payer money.
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If you had immediate executions, you'd have as many innocent people getting killed as guilty ones.
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Hence my qualifier above adressing just that.
 
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