According to researchers of this issue, people committing crimes, rely on a chance of avoiding punishment, no matter what it is. Therefore there is basically no difference between a criminal being sentenced to death or to life imprisonment. Since numerous research studies on the subject provide no proof of death penalty affecting the crime rate and due to some methodological difficulties associated with studies on the subject, we should not use a hypothesis about restraining effect of death penalty as a bottom-line argument against the public opinion on this case ("The Facts: 13 Reasons to Oppose the …show more content…
It means that in countries, which practice death penalty, the rate of grave crimes should be expected to be lower, than in countries, where death penalty is not applicable. In addition, we should anticipate increase in the rate of such crimes in countries, where death penalty used to be applied, but was abolished and, conversely, decrease in the rate of such crimes in the countries, where this measure of punishment has been recently introduced. However, none of the researches managed to prove the existence connection between death penalty and crime rate ("The Facts: 13 Reasons to Oppose the Death