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Originally posted by hoosier
I am 100% sure that nobody given the death penalty, via injection or electrocution, in GA has ever committed another crime. IT TOTALLY DETERS FUTURE CRIMES by that perp.
I'm pretty confident that it is also true in the other 49 states.
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It also prevents crimes from innocent people who are executed due to laws in the system. Until that is addressed, the death penalty is not an acceptable method of punishment for a civilized society.
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Originally posted by hoosier
Right now we have the most people ever in prison.
Right now we have a very low crime rate, compared to post-WWII years.
Incarceration = lower crime rates.
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Thats a fallicous argument. Aftre WWII, incarceration rates rose
and crime rose. This trend continued for a half century. If you exclude New York City from your statistics, your whole argument falls apart, and is never true.
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Originally posted by hoosier
The death penalty would be a more effective deterent IF it was timely.
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It has never been shown to be an effective deterant, and there is much statistical data that shows the opposite. What we do know is that many innocent people would be executed if this became reality.
So much for a fair judicial system.