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To: EricOKC
"Hmm...ok - and water is wet, fire burns, democrats are scum, we know all this "

Actually, the consensus among criminologists has always been that the death penalty has NO deterrent effect.

So this is 'news'.
7 posted on 05/07/2003 5:52:46 PM PDT by edwin hubble
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To: edwin hubble
Actually, the consensus among criminologists has always been that the death penalty has NO deterrent effect.

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It has a deterrent eggect.

9 posted on 05/07/2003 5:58:37 PM PDT by RLK
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To: edwin hubble
"Actually, the consensus among criminologists has always been that the death penalty has NO deterrent effect."

Oh, but it does! Those murderers who are executed will never murder again.

17 posted on 05/07/2003 8:15:21 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE.)
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