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Per Joy Beeson:
The only reason for opposing "death penalty" is that we the people can't delegate authority that we don't have. Here's one more - which probably means I'm not a "Nice Person": when the perpetrator is killed, his troubles are over. Some people, OTOH, would probably prefer that his troubles are just beginning. -- Pete Cresswell |
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On 11/6/2017 5:30 PM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per Joy Beeson: The only reason for opposing "death penalty" is that we the people can't delegate authority that we don't have. Here's one more - which probably means I'm not a "Nice Person": when the perpetrator is killed, his troubles are over. Some people, OTOH, would probably prefer that his troubles are just beginning. There's also the fact that the deterrence effect is minimal at best, and likely zero. As with most big contentious issues, people analyzing data reach different conclusions. But the death penalty _proponents_ say statistics show an execution prevents only about 74 murders. The U.S. has about 15,000 murders per year. 74 is less than half a percent of the problem. It's hard to imagine accepting any other measure that's so extreme, yet so ineffective. And it takes a LOT of government resources to impose and enact one death penalty. ISTM that if that huge effort went into almost any other realistic preventive measure, it would yield a much bigger improvement. And that is, of course, what's done in almost all other advanced countries. -- - Frank Krygowski |
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