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As many as 60 people may be alive today in Texas because two dozen convicted killers were executed last year in the nation's most active capital punishment state (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6802314.html - broken link), according to a study of death penalty deterrence by researchers from Sam Houston State University and Duke University.
A review of executions and homicides in Texas by criminologist Raymond Teske at Sam Houston in Huntsville and Duke sociologists Kenneth Land and Hui Zheng concludes a monthly decline of between 0.5 to 2.5 homicides in Texas follows each execution.
Study says Texas death penalty a homicide deterrent | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6802314.html - broken link)
Study says Texas death penalty a homicide deterrent | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6802314.html - broken link)
I still believe killing someone because they killed is not the answer. If you want to punish them leave them in prison for life with no chance for parole. when they wake up in there 5X7 cell each day let them know their best day of life is not to get raped that day. Do not put them to sleep like you would your old dog in pain. have more respect for your dog.
Second the death penalty can not be undone. You can not have a do over, if you find sometime down the line they were innocent
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One of the comments posted on that site was in a similiar vein to what I was thinking...They should start executing a LOT more people, thereby driving the murder rate down even more. Eventually, you could just execute everyone, and then, hey.... problem solved.
God help you if you were innocent, though .No one is ever innocent tho, so kind of a moot point.
SHould probably apply the death penalty to red light runners. I bet people would stop running red lights. The camera is never wrong. I'd bet my life on it. Wouldn't you?
There has been a long debate over its deterrence. Some studies show it does not, others show it does. I never really was concerned whether it could deter it or not because one thing is an absolute fact concerning it.
It also eliminates some non-offenders. It also eliminates many who would never re-offend.
To some of us, the degrading aspects very much outweigh the marginal benefit of "eliminating" the few who might re-offend, which you can't determine beforehand.
do not worry people, this administration already has plans underway to not prosecute deadly criminals anymore anyway, Rahm has already said that they are looking at other ways. I wonder what those other ways are. Probably means that he will get them a govt. job in the WH or something.
So what are your thoughts on that individual that may have been innocent that Texas axed? Was it worth your study, since the state has blood on their hands Texas citizens had some role in this dude's death:
Study says Texas death penalty a homicide deterrent | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6802314.html - broken link)
Wasn't this study conducted by the same people who say the earth is 6000 yrs old? Dumb & dumber
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