I should have said murder rate is per 100,000 etc... the key is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
On 4 June 2014 20:07, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4 June 2014 19:14, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On 04 Jun 2014, at 00:40, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: >> >> No family, then it depends on the nature of the crime. Sparing a killer >>> for a price? This reminds me of why the US doesn't have race riots anymore, >>> like the LA Rodney King riots. Most often, there are "settlements" as when >>> police do unlawful killings, because the family opts for the settlement. I >>> am feeling that those nation states that do not have death penalties, are >>> opting, as a cultural norm, Out of a sense of sqeamishness, which is >>> understandable, rather than real justice or mercy. "well, if we just don't >>> have the death penalty, we won't have to think about the victim." >>> >> >> Death penalty does not make sense. I can understand personal individual >> revenge, and could acquit a parent killing the one who has been violent >> with his/her children, but I can't swallow the idea that a state coldly >> kill someone. This is close to nonsense and barbary. It does not deter >> people to kill, on the contrary it makes killing more banal or normal. It >> can even motivate a type of serial killing where the serial killer >> phantasms on his own death. Then it kills innocent people in a regular way. >> Countries with death penalty have usually more homicides than the others. >> Well, that's my opinion. >> > > Well it's a matter of statistics - either they do or they don't. > > Here's the murder rate... > > > > Here's the countries with the death penalty... > > > > Hmm looks kind of inverse...ish. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
