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Originally Posted by jaysay
America's a very big country Eric, home to many different races and cultures, but my point with the American system, if you kill somebody in cold blood there is no second chance, its either the needle, the chair or the gas chamber, failing that life without the chance of parole, in good old Britain murderers can get 30 years and be back on the streets before they're 50, victims don't get that chance
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Canada's a very big country, home to many different races and cultures. We don't have the death penalty. And even (notice I began this sentence with a conjunction
) without the death penalty, our murder rate is going down. In fact, the rates for all types of crime are on the way down. Point is though, if anyone could demonstrate to me ... logically, statistically, whatever -ally, that capital pusnishment is a deterrent to murder, I would be all in favour of it. But as far as I can see, it doesn't work as a deterrent. I know folks who are in favout of it for the wrong reasons: probably the decendants of those who did their knitting by the guillotine, or who got their jollies at Tyburn. But, as a deterrent to murder, it just doesn't work. And however many jerks, assholes, losers, etc. are hanged, fried, or shot, it will never work.