esults of Gibbs investigation is that capital punishment did not deter. However, during the 1970's Prof. Isaac Ehrlich found out through his research that capital punishment did deter (Van den Haag, 210). Many advocates of capital punishment base their opinions on his results, but what many of them do not know is that no one else besides Ehrlich has come up with the same results (Blumstein, 358). The conclusion that researches have drawn up during the past decade is that the death penalty does not significantly have an effect on serious crime one way or the other.According to Bedau, the media in some sense makes it seem like Americans overwhelmingly support the death penalty. However, if Americans had to choose between the death penalty and a life sentence without parole and the convicted had to work and not just sit inside a prison cell, then they would not support the death penalty. According to a Field Institute survey, only 26 percent of the American population would support the death penalty if convicted murderers were forced into life imprisonment withrestitution.The death penalty should be abolished because it is a barbaric form of punishment which should not be allowed in the United States which is supposedly one of the most civilized nations in the world. It should also be abolished not only because it is barbaric but also because it defies the U.S. Constitution which most American hold sacred. In addition to this, the death penalty even if it remains legal in the U.S. would not obtain its goal. Because the death penalty fails its main objective and because of the reasonstated above it should be abolished....
