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To: E. Charters who wrote (4480)	4/15/2003 8:22:15 AM
From: Stephen O	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8273

Eric you wrote In addition, death-punishment has no deterrance on crime itself, based on facts borne out by experience. Wrong, the executed criminal can no longer perform another crime and therefore crime is deterred. About 8% of murderers commit another crime, often the killing of other prisoners, or killing while on the lam - Allan Legere the monster of Miramichi is the best Canadian example. With DNA proving innocence and guilt there is now very little likelihood of a wrongful conviction. Here's a description of Allan Legere, he should have been deterred after his first conviction for murder. ALLAN LEGERE Once a car salesman outside Ottawa, his name became synonymous with terror in New Brunswick. A decade ago, Allan Legere, now 53, was found guilty of a mass killing spree that involved the torture, rape and killing of three women and the murder of an elderly Catholic priest. He became known as the "Monster of the Miramichi," the provincial region where he carried out his murderous rampage. Now securely housed at the SHU, Legere is despised by other inmates who abhor those who have victimized women and children. The grisly sex slayings of 75-year-old Annie Flam and sisters Donna and Linda Lou Daughney, 45 and 41, as well as the beating death of Rev. James Smith, 69, occurred between May and November 1989. Legere was loose at the time after escaping prison guards during a visit to a Moncton hospital. He was already serving a life sentence for killing a Miramichi shopkeeper in 1986. Legere worked as a car salesman in Winchester, south of Ottawa, in the late 1970s, living in a farmhouse in nearby Inkerman. He later returned to his native New Brunswick. When a jury of six women and five men found him guilty on four counts of murder, Justice David Dickson told them: "I don't usually comment on verdicts ... but let me say this. Don't lose too much sleep over your verdict." Legere's crime spree during his escape sparked a wave of fear in the area. People who lived alone moved in with family and friends for safety and gun sales increased. Few people went out after dark and Halloween trick-or-treating was cancelled that year. He managed to escape when he was taken to hospital for treatment of an ear infection. Secured with handcuffs, a body chain and leg shackles, he emerged from a small, private washroom without restraints and waving a homemade knife. Legere was captured seven months later after one of the largest manhunts in Canadian history.