Abolitionists claim
that the death penalty does not deter at all. However, vast majority of police
around the world need the death penalty for protecting them. Here is a
testimony from Officer
In the late 1980s, John
Groncki was working as a Baltimore City police officer in the K-9 unit when he
came upon four people he believed had just committed an armed robbery.
He followed standard
procedure and searched all four men for weapons. Finding none, he continued to
follow protocol and called for a transport, which is when the men were searched
again.
"I was standing there
on the side when all of the suspects were being searched and the one individual
was hiding a gun in his crotch area," Groncki said. "The little hairs
on the back of my neck started going up when he pulled that gun out of the
suspect's pants."
Groncki said he wasn't
happy he had missed the gun, but thanked the alleged robber for not killing
him.
"He said, 'I
ain't going to death row,' " Groncki recalled,”I think that absolutely prohibited him from using that gun
on me -- he simply didn't want to go to death row."
While the death penalty may
have scared the criminal enough to save Groncki's life, whether or not the
death penalty is a deterrent has fueled debates for years in statehouses
throughout the United States, and Maryland is no exception.
To make the death penalty
deter better, using lethal injection has little deterrent effect because it is
a painless. Please use the gallows, hire a Saudi Arabian executioner or use the
firing squad (check the weapon) as we want to make death look more frightening
and fearful.
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French anarchist Auguste Vaillant just
before being guillotined in 1894.
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