On 8/15/2022 8:23 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 9:48 AM Stathis Papaioannou
<stath...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
/> Removing a hazard, if that’s how you want to look at the legal
system, does not require any consideration of the criteria for
free will, but deterring people from breaking legal or moral rules
does./
Punishment is a factor in the environment and the fear of that is
oftensufficient to stop somebody from murdering.
By an exercise of their will.
Brent
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