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To: nickcarraway

That is why the death penalty does not deter murderers. That is why. That is exactly why.

If it were tried close to the events and the sentence swiftly carried out, that would work.

But 22 damn years?


5 posted on 01/22/2022 6:31:26 PM PST by rlmorel (Nothing can foster principles of freedom more effectively than the imposition of tyranny.)
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To: rlmorel
In the Dumbbell Murder Case, the basis for the movie Double Indemnity, the murderers were executed ten months after the crime. The case was notable also for the fact that the female murderer's execution was secretly photographed by a New York Daily News reporter who witnessed the murders, and featured on the front page of the paper the next day. The monicker Dumbbell refers to the public appraisal of the murderers, and not the instrument used to kill the victim.

Ten months after garretting her husband.

16 posted on 01/22/2022 6:54:29 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: rlmorel

It’s not intended to be a deterrent. It a punishment.


25 posted on 01/22/2022 7:34:50 PM PST by stevecmd
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To: rlmorel

The DP may or may not deter others...you can’t know that since you aren’t a mind reader. But it WILL deter these two from committing any other murders whether inside prison, or outside. That is...once the DP is carried out.

Even prison itself isn’t a deterrent since major crimes continue to occur.


30 posted on 01/22/2022 8:03:39 PM PST by PrairieLady2
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