It may not have a deterrant effect on others, but it sure deters the
criminal getting the death penalty from ever killing again.
-george
>From: Stewart McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: Revenge has it's place
>Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 18:12:54 +0100
>
>According to FBI statistics, the murder rate in some states which use the
>death penalty is twice that of some states which do not use the death
>penalty. Even researchers who set out to prove that police officers have
>greater protection in jurisdictions permitting executions uncovered no
>deterrent value in the death penalty. Between 1976 and 1985, almost twice
>as
>many law enforcement officers were killed in death penalty states as were
>killed in states that do not execute.
>
>The widely respected Thorsten Sellin studies, conducted in the United
>States
>during 1962, 1967 and 1980, concluded that the death penalty has no
>deterrent effect. The British Royal Commission on Capital Punishment
>analysed statistics from seven European and three non-European countries,
>reporting that no evidence linked abolition of the death penalty to
>increased homicide rates...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kevin Gilchrist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
>Just realized I forgot the original argument for the death penalty, that
>it's a deterrent.
>
>
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