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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (330704)	12/19/2002 8:23:55 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

That source is totally disingenuous. New York's homicide rate dropped 40% after they restored the death penalty in 1995. North Carolina's dropped 35% since they restored it, even though they haven't executed anyone. Of course it's a deterrent. You'd have to be an imbecile to really believe it doesn't reduce murders. Here's a more comprehensive study, from academia no less, with statistically significant results. userwww.service.emory.edu "Each execution results, on average, in 18 fewer murders" In addition to direct deterrence, daily use of the death penalty threat in witness interrogations and hostage negotiations result in at least 10,000 lives saved per year.