On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 2:40 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:

* > If it's a matter of bad genes or cosmic rays that's not something that
> can enter into informing the calculation to commit murder so there's no
> point in making an example of those murderers.*
>

But as I said, before you start worrying about deterrence you should make
sure that the man you have just convicted of murder does not murder again.
Take for example the case of Kenneth McDuff, he was convicted of the rape
torture and murder of 3 children in 1966 and sentenced to death, but it was
later commuted to life in prison. Despite the life sentence he was released
from prison in 1989 due to overcrowding. As a free man over the next 3
years McDuff tortured at least 5 more children to death before he was
caught. In 1998 he was finally executed, he never killed anybody after that
and I think we can be pretty sure he never will.

John K Clark    See what's on my new list at  Extropolis
<https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>
kmd

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