Retentionist states claim to retain the death penalty to modulate crime levels. However, numerous studies demonstrate without a doubt that the death penalty isn’t more useful in preventing crime than other severe forms of judgement, like a life imprisonment. Others cite the continued danger to the society capital offenders pose and the need to support their incarceration through taxpayers’ money. However, autocratic systems use supreme punishment to control the population as a political and discriminatory tool against dissidents and minorities.