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Politics : Long Live The Death Penalty! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (55)	1/13/2003 4:38:54 PM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 828

so if life is that precious to them, wouldn't the death penalty then be seen as a deterrent for death penalty crimes? Maybe, but I don't think that someone who's inclined to commit a crime would necessarily think twice merely by knowing that someone else is trying to keep from being executed. I think that reaction is to be expected. In fact, I'm inclined to believe that in a certain number of situations a would-be criminal might be inclined to commit a worse crime - i.e., killing witnesses, cops, etc. - to avoid being put in that position. and, if they are fighting for their lives, they have been found guilty I think that reaction is to be expected whether they are, in fact, guilty or innocent. Don't you? LPS5

To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (55)	1/13/2003 8:12:31 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 828

If they are innocent then the death penalty may or may have not have deterred them, depending on whether or not they were motivated to murder someone and the precise reason why they did not, or were prevented from doing so. If they are guilty then nothing deterred them or they would not be guilty of murder because they would have been deterred from such an act. However, there is no doubt that killing them will prevent them from murder whether or not they were the guilty one. However, if they were innocent then the true murderer would likely only be further emboldened to kill, and would suffer no deterrence from another being executed in his stead.