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Colobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-10-07 11:56 PM Original message |
Studies say death penalty deters crime |
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Matsubara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-10-07 11:58 PM Response to Original message |
1. That may be. Problem is you can't un-kill someone who was wrongly executed. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 12:06 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. yyyyyyyyup. |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 06:53 AM Response to Reply #1 |
28. So true |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 07:40 AM Response to Reply #1 |
32. Exactly. nt |
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JeffR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 12:00 AM Response to Original message |
2. So our disgraceful murder rate would be even worse without |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
3. If an execution deters 18 murders ... |
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katsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
4. Maybe they mean this applies only in amerikka. |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
5. I read that article on Yahoo. |
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Colobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 12:14 AM Response to Original message |
7. In Florida, justice was served a couple of days ago |
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MonkeyFunk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 01:00 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. What's that got to do with whether or not the DP |
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Colobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 01:32 AM Response to Reply #12 |
17. Now that he'll be dead, he won't kill anyone else. |
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MonkeyFunk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 02:03 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Do you really believe |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 07:42 AM Response to Reply #17 |
33. And the brutally murdered young couple are just as dead. nt |
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Colobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 08:07 AM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Doesn't matter; the rapists/killers will pay. |
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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 12:15 AM Response to Original message |
8. Well, Dick Cheney is de turd |
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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 12:19 AM Response to Original message |
9. that study should come here and talk to california, i don't see murder rates going |
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jellybeancurse (116 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 12:45 AM Response to Original message |
10. Based on the article there seems to be some rather large |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 12:54 AM Response to Original message |
11. Well, one section of this study is bullshit... |
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Madspirit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 01:01 AM Response to Original message |
13. ...and MANY studies say it doesn't. |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 01:13 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. What I find appalling about the study is the advocation of... |
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Edweird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 01:14 AM Response to Original message |
15. I think it's pretty clear, that death penalty or not, Americans like to kill each other. |
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MasterDarkNinja (139 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 01:26 AM Response to Original message |
16. Those numbers don't sound right |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 03:18 AM Response to Reply #16 |
23. Could it be that the 150 additional murders were due to other factors? |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 06:55 AM Response to Reply #23 |
29. that was what I was going to say, too |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 12:17 PM Response to Reply #23 |
36. I don't see how, the number of homicides in 2005 are the lowest since 1967, and per capita lower... |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 07:12 AM Response to Reply #16 |
30. Exactly how is that claim of "150 additional homicides" calculated? |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 12:17 PM Response to Reply #30 |
37. They pulled the number out of their asses, period.... |
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canetoad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 01:40 AM Response to Original message |
18. Bullshit |
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emilyg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 01:57 AM Response to Original message |
19. It would deter me from a life of crime |
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canetoad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 02:23 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Hehe I think thats a funny reply |
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SeattleGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 02:26 AM Response to Original message |
22. The findings aren't going to change my mind. I am against the death |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 03:21 AM Response to Original message |
24. It's also cheaper too |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 03:51 AM Response to Original message |
25. well, how about nations that don't have the death penalty but a far lower murder rate |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 03:59 AM Response to Original message |
26. I think it's funny (in a sick way) |
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Jonathan50 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 06:48 AM Response to Original message |
27. In general I think that states with the death penalty have higher murder rates.. |
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NorthernSpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 07:39 AM Response to Original message |
31. Don't be a sucker! Read "Econometric Modeling as Junk Science"... |
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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-11-07 08:34 AM Response to Original message |
35. Why is it America is the only westernized country that believes this? |
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