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To: Bald Eagle who wrote (330126)	12/17/2002 5:56:47 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Studies say you're wrong.... Callous killers know how easy it is to get away with murder.... And you can certainly see that passion killings would not be affected by any penalty... "So, the death sentence falls in that category, it deters future acts of murder" A deterrent would have prevented the murder in the first place... eg our nukes were a deterrent to the USSR's nukes If they had launched first, it wouldn't have made much difference if they couldn't launch a second time...

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (330126)	12/17/2002 8:23:51 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Well if death were such a great deterrent the World Trade Center would still be standing. Surely you must concede that a death penalty actually encourages some people who like the idea of being executed as some kind of martyr. Since studies don't show CP as a deterrent, i think the debate should be held on other grounds. Steve