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What a ridiculous statement. Of course the death penalty deters murders. It stops them completely. What do you think I'm talking about ? It deters/prevents all the murders that the executed convict can no longer commit, because he's dead.That's an opinion only at this point. Let's see the numbers and the money involved. Since the death penalty does not deter murders that are intended, part of your contention falls.
What is wrong with you ?Your brain is not working. It will not stop the intended murder, only punish it. You need to think.
Oh 20 million is more than enough. Good for him.No amount is enough but this helps. Too many people are found to be wrongfully corrected and not guilty. SCOTUS may have to suspend the death penalty again until this is worked out.
Illinois man freed after 20 years in prison gets 20 million - Yahoo News
That is not who we are talking about. Deterrence is preventing murder from happening in the first place, not after the fact. You need to think, my friend.What is wrong with you ?Your brain is not working. It will not stop the intended murder, only punish it. You need to think.
Have you ever seen an executed prisoner (WHO IS DEAD), come back to life and kill again ? Sheeeesh!! Focus, dude!
^^^ Why should he be punished for it? The man deserves at least something in order to be able to get started again after losing so much time.
God bless you always!!!
Holly
That is not who we are talking about. Deterrence is preventing murder from happening in the first place, not after the fact. You need to think, my friend.What is wrong with you ?Your brain is not working. It will not stop the intended murder, only punish it. You need to think.
Have you ever seen an executed prisoner (WHO IS DEAD), come back to life and kill again ? Sheeeesh!! Focus, dude!
Or better yet don't convict him of a crime he didn't commit.^^^ Why should he be punished for it? The man deserves at least something in order to be able to get started again after losing so much time.
God bless you always!!!
Holly
So give him a job and a place to live. Not $20M
No amount is enough but this helps. Too many people are found to be wrongfully corrected and not guilty. SCOTUS may have to suspend the death penalty again until this is worked out.
Illinois man freed after 20 years in prison gets 20 million - Yahoo News
The Death Penalty is not a deterrent, nor has it ever been.
Its role has been to take Revenge out of the hands of the family and friends of the victim, and to put it into the more methodical and dispassionate hands of the State.
Revenge... for the victim, primarily, and, secondarily, for the victim's family and friends, and even, in a tertiary sort of way, for the community at large, for thus damaging and weakening and disturbing the community.
Revenge.
It has been thus, since the earliest times, when the payment of 'wergeld' (blood money) and eye-for-an-eye personal violence were taken out of the hands of an aggrieved peasantry and put into the hands of the local nobility of a post-tribal, feudal, pre-medieval Europe.
In that respect, nothing has really changed since those earlier times.
Except that nowadays, the State exacts that Revenge through a long, drawn-out legalistic Danse Macabre - tightly controlled and monitored, to ensure the fewest possible mistakes.
Usually, the system works.
Sometimes, it doesn't.
But let's not forget how State-sponsored Capital Punishment got its start, and why it has been sustained for so many long centuries - fulfilling, as it does, a basic human need.
Revenge.
The death penalty absolutely IS A DETERRENT, and always has been. ALL those executed, have been deterred from ever killing again. And many who have not been given the death penalty, HAVE KILLED AGAIN.The Death Penalty is not a deterrent, nor has it ever been.
Its role has been to take Revenge out of the hands of the family and friends of the victim, and to put it into the more methodical and dispassionate hands of the State.
Revenge... for the victim, primarily, and, secondarily, for the victim's family and friends, and even, in a tertiary sort of way, for the community at large, for thus damaging and weakening and disturbing the community.
Revenge.
It has been thus, since the earliest times, when the payment of 'wergeld' (blood money) and eye-for-an-eye personal violence were taken out of the hands of an aggrieved peasantry and put into the hands of the local nobility of a post-tribal, feudal, pre-medieval Europe.
In that respect, nothing has really changed since those earlier times.
Except that nowadays, the State exacts that Revenge through a long, drawn-out legalistic Danse Macabre - tightly controlled and monitored, to ensure the fewest possible mistakes.
Usually, the system works.
Sometimes, it doesn't.
But let's not forget how State-sponsored Capital Punishment got its start, and why it has been sustained for so many long centuries - fulfilling, as it does, a basic human need.
Revenge.
