Death penalty has its pro and con but I think it has little effect on reducing crimes. Though it does help reducing cost spent on prison. What do you guys think? Is there alternatives to punishing crimes?
Liberals tend to believe that death penalty is having little effect on reducing crimes. But the evidences point towards quite the opposite. And it does not reduce the prison cost. On average, the death row convict spends some 20-25 years in prison before the sentence is carried out. And the costs may be higher, since he is being kept in solitary confinement.