I personally don’t think it fixes anything. We’ll always have crime everywhere, no matter how harsh the punishment, and in a free thinking society like we have in America or Canada, if it was reinstalled everywhere just like that, people might get extremely upset and start a revolution or something, through interpreting the issue as tyrannical.
Fixing things like crimes needs to be done at the root of society, rather than cutting the leaves and never getting to the problem and just trying to run people with fear.
Now I’m not putting my personal emotive perception into it; as far as I’m concerned, pedophiles and murderers need to be dealt with and I don’t care much what happens to them. But that’s why you don’t want people like me running anything. We need answers and progress, and other than giving the mob it’s bloody piece of meat by instilling some kinda feeling of compassion, security and guidance, no matter how illusory it seems, the death penalty doesn’t really seem to fix anything.
I mean, if the death penalty is so good, why do people keep committing crimes?
Of course, it’s just a guess really, I’m not a social scientist, and who knows really, How different it would be if eyes were met for eyes everywhere? My guess though is that we’d be regressing back to something akin to the dark ages, which was a great period of stagnation for humanity.