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

To: LPS5 who wrote (441)	1/17/2003 10:13:58 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 828

Message 18448231 Again, if those who committed murder were at least put on death row (i.e. preventing some wacko judge or parole board from releasing them), the 8.3% of them wouldn't have murdered again. This by definition is deterrence. No, wait, it goes beyond deterrence to elimination. This is but one way to measure the deterrent effect of the DP. There are other ways, some statistical, some empirical, some anecdotal, that have been covered over the past few days.