While the Death Penalty would appear to accomplish certain goals, in practice it does not. The usefulness of Capital Punishment is generally outlined by three goals that it supposedly achieves:

1. It is cheaper to execute a heinous felon than it is to imprison them for life.

2. Killing heinous felons discourages criminals from committing similar crimes in the future.

3. Capital Punishment allows a sense of justice for the relatives of the victim(s).

Surprisingly, studies have shown that not only can it be more expensive (look under the "Financial Costs" section) to the taxpayers to execute a felon rather than imprison them for life, but that the presence of Capital Punishment laws do not result in a lower crime rate for those crimes that can incur the penalty. Also in many cases, the sense of justice felt by the relatives of the victim(s) is compromised by feelings of guilt or discontent, since no matter what happens to the criminal, the crime and its effects are never erased.

Because Capital Punishment fails to meet the goals it sets out to achieve, the Constitutionalist Party sees no reason to support it. The CP also acknowledges the right of the States to institute such laws if they find them to be useful and desired by its voters, but opposes any federal laws that support the practice.

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