The Threat Of Death
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As the war on crime continues, two truths hold steady: eliminating all
crime is impossible, and controlling it is a must. The main weapon used to
control crime in this war is deterrence. The government's deterrent for
committing murder is the death penalty. The fear of death will not deter ever ....
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.... people from committing
murder. The main ways in which they support this theory are: the severity of
the punishment, various polls of citizens and prisoners, and two in particular
studies.
The most obvious deterring justification is the severity of punishment
(Calebresi 19). This means, put simply, to punish for a crime in a way that the
punishment outweighs the crime. If the punishment for robbing a bank is to
spend one day in jail, then bank robbing would become a daily occurance. On th ....
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