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EC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-12-05 05:08 PM Original message |
How does the death penalty deter murders? |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-12-05 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
1. All murderers check the number of executions before committing crimes. |
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trixie (696 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-12-05 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
2. it doesn't |
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Kipling (929 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-12-05 05:13 PM Response to Original message |
3. It doesn't, and nobody seriously thinks it does. |
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mrcheerful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-12-05 05:14 PM Response to Original message |
4. Same thinking in every law |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-12-05 05:15 PM Response to Original message |
5. It doesn't. If it did, the state would have stopped after the first |
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central scrutinizer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-12-05 05:18 PM Response to Original message |
6. it doesn't |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-12-05 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
7. study shows eliminate death penalty murder goes down. |
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prescole (416 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-12-05 05:22 PM Response to Original message |
8. Once a killer has been executed, he can't kill again. That's deterrence.nt |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-12-05 05:24 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. that is revenge. deterence is for them to not murder in first place |
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comradebillyboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-12-05 06:29 PM Response to Reply #9 |
21. actual the recidivism rate among those who are executed |
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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-12-05 05:25 PM Response to Original message |
10. That thesis is so weak that I'm surprised that there aren't more mass |
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zbdent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-12-05 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
11. Let's see, we've put to death 1000 people who murdered someone |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-12-05 05:50 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Since 1976 I would venture 20,000 people have been murdered each |
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China_cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-12-05 05:42 PM Response to Original message |
12. It doesn't. Never has. |
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Left Is Write (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-12-05 05:43 PM Response to Original message |
13. It doesn't. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-12-05 05:46 PM Response to Original message |
14. This argument is specious. |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-12-05 05:53 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. That's because |
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bloom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-12-05 05:59 PM Response to Original message |
17. The murders that it stops |
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incapsulated (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-12-05 06:01 PM Response to Original message |
18. It was never meant to |
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goodhue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-12-05 06:01 PM Response to Original message |
19. It doesn't |
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Lefty48197 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-12-05 06:01 PM Response to Original message |
20. I don't think it does |
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