Re: Abortion

Don Swayser wrote:
> .... Contrary to your contention the deasth[sic] penalty is a
> deterent[sic] to violence of the most extreme form, murder.
> The death penalty wasn't applied, until recent years,
> since the mid-seventies. The murder rate rose during
> those years. Since the death penalty is again being
> pronounced the murder rate has declined. It is now down
> to pre-ban rates. Those are the facts....

Those may be "facts" but it is a fallacy to assume that the
removal of the death penalty caused a rise in the murder
rate. Texas has been offing people for a long time and their
death row is still packed. Those that claim that capital 
punishment is a deterrent know nothing about, and aren't 
interested in, studying criminal behavior. They just want 
revenge.
--
David V.
Yosemite Llama Ranch

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