This view is not comprehensive. Many crimes are not greedy, such as revenge. Killing father is bitter. Even if you know that the enemy who personally killed your father may be sentenced to death, it is still possible to personally kill your father. At this time, the death penalty will not play a deterrent role. At the same time, if a person is determined to hurt others and you tell him that your crime is the death penalty, then he is likely to kill the murderer and destroy the body, making his crime and punishment more difficult to detect.
Viewpoint 2 supports the death penalty: for criminals themselves, the death penalty can fundamentally prevent them from committing crimes again. Since it is impossible to tell which murderers will commit crimes again, it is unfair to put all the murderers to death. Long-term imprisonment can also prevent existing death row inmates from committing crimes again, so as to prevent them from being isolated from society. The death penalty eliminates the evil in people's hearts by destroying the body, which is undoubtedly a means to achieve the purpose of punishment, but the concept of reforming criminals has been shelved.
Viewpoint 3 in support of the death penalty: The death penalty is the retribution of felony and the inevitable requirement of ethical justice. If you commit a heinous crime, you deserve to die. There is no reason to sentence the rapist victims to rape in turn, and there is no reason to judge that the murderer of the whole family should be killed by the victim. Therefore, it cannot be said that it is fair to sentence the murderer to death. If people agree that life imprisonment is the highest punishment, then it does not violate the principle of fairness to be sentenced to this kind of punishment for those who commit heinous crimes. On the contrary, it makes people lose their freedom for life, and sometimes they are even more afraid than getting rid of the death penalty. After all, there is an old saying in China that it is better to have short-term pain than long-term pain.
Viewpoint 4 supports the death penalty: the death penalty is more economical than other criminal laws. The death penalty can be completed with only one bullet and one injection of medicine, but life imprisonment may consume a lot of judicial and social resources, and the rescued criminals make little contribution to society. The value of life cannot be measured by money. The death penalty will lead to the disappearance of one more life, which is not to ignore the value of the victim's life. Instead, we should consider that the emergence of criminal behavior should include the social and natural environment that breeds criminals. For example, poverty caused by poor growth and education environment and imperfect social welfare system. Therefore, society must bear the responsibility of re-education of criminals, and executing him means letting him bear all the responsibilities. Moreover, the death penalty is irreversible. In the United States, 65,438+002 innocent people have been sentenced to death in the past 20 years. In China, the commutation rate of death penalty cases reported by the Higher People's Court to the Supreme People's Court for approval in a certain year is around 10%. As part of the power to approve the death penalty in ordinary criminal cases is directly delegated to the higher people's court without the Supreme People's Court's approval, it is conceivable that the death penalty may be abused (see Professor Hu Yunteng's General Theory of Crime).
China signed the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the criminal law amendments (8) and (9) abolished the death penalty for 22 crimes, most of which covered economic crimes. It can be seen that China has gradually realized the economic benefits.