Your article is right on, Edie.
I get so sick of hearing liberals say the death penalty is not a deterrent. It is most definitely a deterrent for repeat offenders because that offender cannot repeat the offense and the recidivism rate for child molesters is out of sight.
re: liberals say the death penalty is not a deterrent
The deterrence thing is a straw man argument. It's called capital punishment, not capital deterrence. Any deterrent effect is serendipity. The object is to punish, not deter.
They're right. It's not a deterrent.........when they are permitted to drag the process out for twenty years at a cost of millions!
Honestly, it's like saying water is no deterrent to thirst.