Death to the death sentence

The overuse of capital punishment to satisfy the public hides the measure's failure to deter nonviolent crimes

With death sentences handed down recently in corruption cases, an old issue is once again a hot topic for debate: Should capital punishment be abolished in economic, nonviolent crimes?

On one side of the debate are the jurists, who for the most part are leaning toward abolishing capital punishment. The majority of them believe that depriving an individual of his or her life for a nonviolent offence is near useless in preventing new economic crimes.