that the government executes murderers primarily because the authority believes it will discourage others from becoming murderers. Receptionists have long stressed the deterrent power of capital punishment as an obvious fact. The fear of death discourages people from committing crimes. Many argue that the use of capital punishment as a form of prevention does not work. In order for capital punishment to work as prevention, certain events must be present in the criminal's mind prior to committing the offense. The criminal must be aware that others have been punished in the past for the same offense that he or she is planning and that what happened to that individual who committed that offense could also happen to them. Sometimes this works, and sometime
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