ten look at the person's background of violence. Other concerns that bring up past convictions of violent act and murders help to lead jurors in their decision-making process. Male murderers with earlier convictions are for times as likely to acquire a judicial disadvantage than a female because of a prior violent felony charge (McCuen, 1997). Women are not as quick to show aggression as men are. This increases the likely hood of a prosecutor to persuaded to go to capital trial and for the jury to sentence the death penalty.Deterrence is a theory that a threatened punishment must be of a severe enough consequence in order to counteract a criminal's feel of pleasure to commit a crime. Specific deterrence is the inability of a convict to commit another crime in result to their given punishment. A person not committing a crime because of the severity of the punishment if they carry out with it is known as a general deterrence. Murderers' that come across as somewhat rational and intelligent, whom have committed a premeditated crime are those that the death penalty as a deterrent work.An analyzing study of data from the years 1936 to 1977 done by Professor Stephen Layson of the University of North Carolina made a significant conclusion about deterrence. His conclusion was that eighteen murders are deterred in result to an execution. According to Layson's studies, if correct, somewhere around 125,000 murders have been deterred due to the threat of the death penalty as punishment (McCuen, 1997).McComb of the Supreme Court of California discovered fourteen examples in the police department of defendants whom, in explaining their refusal to carry a weapon or kill. This pointed to the fear of the death penalty. This is great evidence supporting that people are truly deterred by the presence of the death penalty.The death penalty is a definite deterrent to crime, however it is not effective enough. The delayed punishment received is not paired cl...
