In a message dated Tue, 3 Oct 2000 11:59:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Duane Wheeler
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<< I was going home and the news stated a fact that:
FACTS are often dependent on the source!
<<1.Capital Punishment in fact is more expensive than lifetime imprisonment.
Can't comment on this one but see below.
<<2. Texas leads in excitations and has had a 24% growth rate in Murder!
Not true. "Reynolds notes that the murder rate in Texas fell 56 percent in the 1990s,
when the state started taking the death penalty seriously, while the national murder
rate fell only 38 percent. That means that approximately 1,800 fewer people were
killed during that period, bringing Texas' murder rate to its lowest since the
1950's." See http://www.ncpa.org/press/ma062000b.html for details.
<<3. Capitol punishment is not a deterrent to crime as we believe.
See above.
<<Think on that and give me your thoughts<G> also think on the "phrase" *Right to life
or Pro-Life and explain why a pro-life belief might back state sponsored execution.
Unborn children are INNOCENT. Those being executed are NOT (granted there are RARE
exceptions where innocent people are convicted - of course they are also the cases the
media publicizes the most so they don't seem rare).
<<*Finely in closeing- *Can a Royal Ranger/AG style Christian vote Democratic and
maintain a christian testimony?
This one can't! :>) Seriously though, it depends on the candidate and his beliefs
and voting record!
Michael
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