phyrex1an
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The Helper said:The Death Penalty is Capital PUNISHMENT - not Capital Deterrent. Its main purpose is punish serious offenders - not deter.
Yea I know that (And now I also know what deter meens *dictonary*).
But the single most common reason I have heard to support death penelty is:
"It is so good becuse we have less crimes becuse of it"
Well less crimes that we should have if we didnt have it maybe, that is impossible to know. But not less crimes than others, on the paper. As sud says you cannot be sure without taking all numbers in calulation but with enought examples (7 isnt) we have a quit accurate number. Someone whant do do some math?
<Statistics, in my eyes, are almost useless for this topic because they take into <no account like economic situations, racial profiling of the target demographics, <or other hidden factors. You can't base your results simply on the end <numbers, you have to base it on whether or not it's needed to control the <population that you are dealing with.
I know that to.
<Also it may be other resons for the high murder rate. I dont know.
But as far as I know the whole system of justice is built on statistics or chance calulation.
How big is the chance that he was on the place on the crime and didnt do it?
He had blood on his hands, how big is the chance that he tried to help the victim or tried to killed the victim?
The reason I am againts death penelty isnt that it doesnt have the right effects (less crime or kill the bastards whatever) it is becuse you can NEVER be 100% sure who did it.
Yea we have a tape that proves it, how hard is it to fake a tape?
10 people saw it, people are rotten give them enough cash...
He have conffesed (?), to protect his wife and 2 children from the maffia who threat to kill them elseway.
Well the chanse that someone that have conffesed and is on tape is not guilty is VERY small but how may has been executed so fare in mordern time?
10 000? A error margin on 0.001% and we have 10 people killed wihout any reson. Is that justice? A lifetime prison punishemt can be aborted a death punishment cannot.