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Originally posted by KSig RC
Finally, Joel piledrives the conversation with what Heather should have focused on - the reason against the death penalty: IT IS NOT AN ACTIVE, EFFECTIVE METHOD TO DETER FUTURE CRIME!
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Joel's argument is not exactly true.
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.
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.
The death penalty would be a more effective deterent IF it was timely. A perp was injected in GA Tuesday for a murder 14 years ago, and often perps are on 'death row' for 15 - 20 years, thru multiple appeals. If the perp and his lawyer got one appeal, and a 90-day deadline to submit the appeal, the death penalty's deterent effect would mean something more.
The death penalty would be a more effective deterent IF it was timely.
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