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Strannik
From what I have read I am not convinced at all, lots of conflicting information.
This is an interesting article
"The slow death of the death penalty"
http://www.economist.com/news/unite...ling-out-love-needle-slow-death-death-penalty
Several factors have driven death sentences and executions down. The simplest may be that America?s homicide rate has declined sharply?from 10.2 per 100,000 people in 1980 to 4.7 in 2012. With that broader decline has come a fall in the most heinous murders; ie, the sort that earn the harshest sentences. As Bob McCulloch, prosecuting attorney for St Louis County, explains: ?In Missouri, most [murders] are second-degree?bar-room brawls, or some guys shooting each other over a bad dope deal.? First-degree murders, he says, ?rape and murder, killing a police officer?those are all way down.?
i'm not quite sure what are you not convinced about? the re-offending? it's hard to re-offend when you are dead.
I think your right hard to reoffend when you are dead, lock them up and throw away the key and you will have the same impact I am sure.
Here are some facts from this article -
Fans of the death penalty say it deters murderers. The evidence for this is at best equivocal. The number of murders fluctuates each year and has fallen sharply over time, from 24,500 in 1993 to 14,800 in 2012. Many factors affect the murder rate: demography, policing, culture, the job market and so on. No one really knows how much weight to give to each. But it seems improbable that the death penalty has much effect.
I think your right hard to reoffend when you are dead, lock them up and throw away the key and you will have the same impact I am sure.
Is that not cruel too? A lifetime in jail rotting away?
Might as well let 'em go seeing as though then have been rehabilitated. That way they wont reoffend for sure.
Im sure Rolf Hrris will be ready for release soon as "rehabilitated". let him go too?
Yeah lets do that.
Which option costs a government less, life in prison or capital punishment?
I think your right hard to reoffend when you are dead, lock them up and throw away the key and you will have the same impact I am sure.
I don't want anyone to rot in jail, other than my MIL That's a joke
I agree totally with rehabilitation wherever possible.
RH, a paedophile who only got 5 years due to his celeb status and money that got him the best lawyers in town. Anyway that's another thread. That reminds me, I believe more women have now come forward, how many is that now
the main argument against capital punishment is that innocent person can be executed.
Dogooders make me sick. These two pieces of ***** would happily of sold drugs to your kids or anyone kids simply to make money. Rehabilitation may and I stress may be possible for the addict, but not these lowlifes.
Now they are sorry and have turned their lives around ..... Come on. Thankfully we all didn't come down in the last shower. They are garbage, a bullet is to good for them.
I don't think that is true.
People who oppose the death penalty do so even knowing the convicted are guilty, just like in this case. It's mostly a philosophical point of view that we aren't animals and that the base instinct of vengeance is something that most people and the vast majority of civilised countries left behind many years ago.
Dont be sick, understand that we all have an opinion like belly buttons, we may not agree, we don't have to, so what.
Why don't we have capital punishment in Australia..?
Does anyone believe that Indonesia's tough position on drugs is connected to Islam?
Do some research on this, I think you may change your mind
Do you think for one minute that if the "Mules" would have got through with their supply that this syndicate wouldn't be repeating the exercise? They were out to make money at others demise. Plain and simple.
I just don't understand your position of rehabilitation. Some people like these two,prey on the weak, vulnerable to enhance their own lives through profiteering.
what would criminologists do without crime? be out of a job if crime were stopped: vested interest: philip morris on cancer88% of criminologists do not believe the death penalty is an effective deterrent.
Problem not solved, and clearly death penalty is not a deterrent, they recently executed foreign nationals from Holland, Brazil, Nigeria, Malawi and Vietnam for drug offences.
No one has provided any evidence of recidivism among the executedOf course they would have carried on. They are criminals and as you clearly point out, the death penalty is no deterrent.