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Originally Posted by Sho Nuff
I realize that you stated "some people", but I disagree that the death penalty serves as a deterrent in any significant number of cases. I cant imagine any case where a person hasnt committed murder for fear of the death penalty yet they would commit the crime in the face of life in prison.
The death penalty is more societies way of enacting revenge against predators, not preventing future deaths.
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for you it's not a deterrent, for some people that I have met in my lifetime it has, just like in Singapore people I met were afraid to be caned.
I imagine those places where your hand gets cut off for stealing, that's a great deterrent for some people.
It doesn't have to be any significant number, since the reason we vet out the whole appeals process is to ensure that not 1 innocent person is killed by mistake. One seems to be enough most of the time.
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