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

To: LPS5 who wrote (478)	1/17/2003 5:16:09 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 828

<< You're expressing an opinion>> Again, no opinion is offered, just the direct quantifiable consequence of releasing murderers to kill again. Let me try to be clearer: 1 in 12 of those on death row served time for committing murder in the past. (This has been sourced to justice dept statistics, which I provided on Wednesday, and again today.) So, if there are 3,600 people on death row, that means 300 people (8.3%) have a prior murder conviction, right? (That's 1 in 12.) If 300 have served time for murder in the past, and the same 300 are now serving time for a new murder, they are repeat murderers who have killed at least 600 (that's 2x300) people. My point was that if we executed them -- or alternatively kept them on death row indefinitely -- after their first murder, they would not have had the opportunity to be released into society to kill the second batch of at least 300 people. A simple step (put murderers on death row) would have directly saved about half as many people as have been executed over the past 30 years.