Death penalty proponents have been unable to show that capital punishment deters people from committing crimes.

The argument that capital punishment deters or prevents crime remains shaky.

No punishment can deter someone who does not expect to be caught.

Your punishment, Unseemly and disgustful in its kind, Deter you not from opening thus much to me.

It's not a punishment, but even the punishments are not deterring criminals either.

But the American public wants executions, even though there is no evidence that capital punishment deters crime.

She acknowledged that capital punishment would probably not deter some other determined killer.

It is stated that capital punishment does not deter.

Should this current punishment not deter you, you have my word that I will see myself collared and sold as a wenda-graj.

But capital punishment doesn't even deter ordinary murder.