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Great point, however, as someone else mentioned earlier, why only lock up/execute people if it'll serve as a crime deterrent? Do it for justice!you can release people that are locked up accidentally. you cant give them that time back, but you can make up for the mistake to some degree. how do you take back and execution, at all?
if executions led to crime deterrence, then the US wouldnt have the highest murder rate in the developed world. we're also the only developed country who still kills its citizens. this was the case before the appeals process drug out the execution process for years too.
As for your second point, it probably hasn't served as a great deterrent because how often do we actually execute someone? Maybe it'd be a solid deterrent if we didn't have hundreds, if not thousands, sitting on Death Row for DECADES.