” “The results are robust, they don’t really go away,” he said. “I oppose the death penalty. But my results show that the death penalty (deters) — what am I going to do, hide them?” “
If he doesn’t ‘hide them’, he’s gonna lose his parking space at the Faculty Club....
Honest scientists are an endangered species.....
In other news, researchers have determined that it is water that makes rain wet.
I am a firm believer in the death penalty.
No one has ever repeated his crime after execution.
The problems with the death penalty is the length of time in carrying it out.
The costs of repeated trials makes the death penalty expensive.
A person convicted of capitol murder should be given a new trial in 60 days of the first one. At the end of this second trial if he remains convicted he/she should be executed within 30 days. The mental status of this person should not enter into the equation. If we had a rabid dog that killed do we feel sorry for the dog because it became rabid?
Deterrence works. Proof is all around us. Remember, the Soviet Union was deterred from attacking Europe by the fear that the United States would nuke Russia.
And you can prove it to yourself. Here’s how. The next time you are going down the Interstate over the speed limit and see a State Patrol car up ahead, try keeping your foot from lifting off the accelerator and tapping the brake peddle a few times.
No power on Earth could prevent you from slowing down. You slow down because you are DETERRED from speeding by the fear of imminent punishment.
Of course, deterrence works only on normal people. On such as Paris Hilton, Teddy Kennedy, Bill Clinton and other people who consider themselves above the law, nothing deters.
Death stops 60 page rap sheets from getting longer.
I wonder how many of those who oppose the death penalty support abortion and assisted suicide?
All are liberal positions.
The hypocrisy of liberals is mind boggling.
EveryFriday the Saudis would take prisoners to the public square and execute them by beheading them. They still have murderers. The question is does the death penalty deter more people from becoming murderers?
What is does do is lets us get one more killer off the streets and from ever killing again, but there will always be killers out there.
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