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Originally posted by skip101
If they would actually use the death penalty it would deter. Once a criminal is put to death they wont be committing any more crimes. Most crimes are committed by repeat offenders.
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...hmmmm okay, then why doesn't society enforce measures to prevent the overwhelming amount of corporate crime that exists today.
It's funny, reading these comments I would assume that violent crime accounts for much greater than 1% of all crimes committed.
Let me give you a scenario now of a presenter for a course I studied two years ago. He was a man in his early 40s who was just released from jail after serving a term for 2nd degree murder. He was kind of a street kid in his younger days, dropped the fists whenever he cared. One night he picked a fight with a guy, and after knocking his opponent to the ground the guy hit his head on the sidewalk and later died....telling the class this story, he couldn't stress enough the pain he felt every day for being responsible for this individual's death. If he could go back to when he was 18 and just walk away from the fight he'd do so in a heartbeat. He lost half his life behind bars, but wanted to turn his life around and make the most of his remaining years. He worked hard everyday to abide to the rules and strived to build his work skills so that one day he could become a productive member of society. In co-operation with rehabilitating facilities and the correctional services, he became fully employed and cherished his prison free days as a new man. The moral of this story, if you were to punish this man so that his chance of reform was no longer available it would be contradictory to some of the basic premises for which our society functions on.
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