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Originally posted by ktsnake
When does it EVER serve a purpose to impose the death penalty?
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I suppose you've heard it before, but recipients of the death penalty have a zero recidivism rate, and that's good enough for me.
I don't think we really have an effective death penalty, though, since there is no relationship between the crime, the trial, and the execution. One of the worst crimes ever in GA was the Alday family killing, where some bums killed like six members of one family in rural GA.
This happened about 28 years ago, all of the victims' then-living relatives are now dead, and the killers are still eating three a day and sleeping soundly - in spite of death penalty convictions.
In the late eighties, Atlanta had a bad adult bookstore situation. They set up a special court and judges, and all it did was work on anti-bookstore cases. Instead of appeals taking months and years to resolve, the court ruled in weeks. Everytime an appeal was filed, it was quickly resolved. Finally the bookstore operator just gave up and locked the doors.
I'd like to see something similar for death penalty cases - appeals are allowed, but they'll be resolved quickly.