Capital Punishment: The Unsuccessful Deterrent

The never ending debate on capital punishment has many topics, arguments, and issues within it’s self. One could go on and on, and do endless research on this never ending controversial issue. Every one has their opinion, whether capital punishment is good or bad, but ignoring that major issue, another issue to be pondered and discussed is whether the death penalty deters crime. After doing quite a bit of research myself, I have come to the arguing side of no, the death penalty does not deter crime. In my view, capital punishment is wrong, there are no real strong statistics that capital punishment actually prevents crime. I do not disagree with the fact that execution puts executed murders out of action. But if a murderer is condemned to the death penalty, then is he still a danger to society while waiting his death sentence? Life imprisonment without opportunity of parole is just as evenly debilitating.
Capital punishment adversaries argue that the deterrent effects of the d...