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Originally Posted by Restless
Its a hard one to agree on.
What serves as a good deterrent for a person not to commit a heinous act?
Is it 'life' in prison? Is it the death penalty? Some say bring back hanging.. blah blah blah. When I hear that I think of 10 Rillington place.
Well. What I mean is this. Look to America and the crazies they have there. In some places they have the death penalty and it doesn't stop them from committing the crimes such as this. So does either deterrent work?
Is this really Human Nature? and no matter what cannot be stopped? If so it is a shame.
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There is no deterrent for murder. Look at all the murders commited in Britain in any given year. (Don't look at the States; because there are just too many
). How many are actually premeditated? Many of them are what the French would call "Crimes of passion" ... only they would say it in frog
In most cases, the perp and the victim are known to one another. Even mass murders are not "normal", in the sense that the killer is a nutbar. In the States, and maybe in most other Western Nations, many murders fall into the, let's say, "disgruntled postal worker" category. And let's not forget the murders that are a direct result of "The War on Drugs"