Re: Abortion

Don Swayser wrote:
> David V. wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Then you believe that the rise and fall of the murder
> rate which coincides with the abolition and reinstatement
> of the death penalty is a coincidence?

Yes. There is nothing to prove they are connected.

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David V.
Yosemite Llama Ranch

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