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People should be free to choose what is best for themselves as long as they do not infringe on the rights of others to do the same. I created this blog to discuss issues I have with big government, liberal media,and to talk about my support for capitalism and the Iraq War.
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OK, before I go on, I'm pro-death penalty.
Now, obviously, this is only an article about studies, but I'm pretty skeptical about these findings. How do they come up with these numbers?
I'm under the impression that they make correlations between the number of people convicted and sentenced to death in a given year and then the number of murders that occur the following year. I'm not sure that that is reliable.
I would almost think that what might deter murder is expediting the death penalty process. Instead of giving someone 20 years to sit on death row, give them 20 days. But then that opens up the whole wrong conviction/killing an innocent person aspect of it...
WOW, you have to call the most popular news network in the country 'alternative media' in order to maintain your 'MSM liberal conspiracy' theory going? Sad.
Also: "Each execution deters an average of 18 murders, according to a 2003 nationwide study by professors at Emory University. (Other studies have estimated the deterred murders per execution at three, five and 14)."
Yeah, that's sounds like a reliable, reproducible methodology alright.
BTW, I'll agree with this study if you agree that global warming is a real, man-made problem- the reporting of both seems to be about the same quality, and obviously neither of us is ever going to actually read teh scientific papers involved.
First off I am not calling Fox news alternative media. They are MSM all the way. Sorry if I made it seem like that. What I was trying to say is that I did not look at other media outlets back in the day and that is one reason why I may have not known about these other studies. Thanks to alternative media I know the other side to many topics I did not know before.
Now about the post. I am not sure if you saw my headline - but it has a question mark at the end of it. Question mark means I am not so sure about this conclusion. I have always felt that the Death Penalty does not deter murders, so when I see a study like this it makes me question my beliefs a little bit.
So you do not have to agree with this study, and I will not have to agree global warmining is real and man made.
...and the stars can all realign.
With all this discrepancy, what we need is a scientific consensus claiming debate is over and that capital punishment is a deterent.
This consensus should be followed up with some policy changes.
1. Constutional amendment protecting the citizenry's right to use capital punishment.
2. Acceleration of the process to increase the effectiveness of deterence. Those convicted get one appeal.
You know Sophist it seems like you are trying to draw a parrallel with some other debatable topic. Only if I was smart enough to determine what you are truly tring to say. I will work on it and figure it out.
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