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Originally Posted by Eric
Canada's a very big country, home to many different races and cultures. We don't have the death penalty. And even (notice I began this sentence with a conjunction  ) without the death penalty, our murder rate is going down. In fact, the rates for all types of crime are on the way down. Point is though, if anyone could demonstrate to me ... logically, statistically, whatever -ally, that capital pusnishment is a deterrent to murder, I would be all in favour of it. But as far as I can see, it doesn't work as a deterrent. I know folks who are in favout of it for the wrong reasons: probably the decendants of those who did their knitting by the guillotine, or who got their jollies at Tyburn. But, as a deterrent to murder, it just doesn't work. And however many jerks, assholes, losers, etc. are hanged, fried, or shot, it will never work. |
Well Eric deterrent or no deterrent, why should scum like Brady, Sutcliffe, Neilson (who's now dead, thank god) and Huntley, who committed such atrocious murders, be locked up and cosseted for the rest of their miserable lives, with the cost to the tax payer running into millions of pounds, oh yes the warders have to call them MR as well, because they have rights
