[Vision2020] Re: Only the short sighted think Death Penalty MustBe Aboli...

[Tom Hansen]

Take a look at the countries listed under "Death Penalty Permitted" at

 

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777460.html

 

Not exactly a stellar group of moral mentors, huh?

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

 

"As I read the New Testament, I don't see anywhere in there that killing bad
people is a very high calling for Christians. I see an awful lot about
redemption and forgiveness." 

--James W.L. Park, former execution officer, San Quentin, California 

 

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Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Re: Only the short sighted think Death Penalty
MustBe Aboli...

 

Joe,

 

Couple good questions, here we go.

 

The logic that the death penalty does not deter violent crime because
America has capital punishment and also has high rates of violent crime,
ignores 2 important points.  1)  This country has no realistic program for
capital punishment.  Offenders languish on death row for more than a decade
in many cases.  Were justice rendered more swiftly, we might see a
corresponding decrease in violent crime.  2)  Your argument sounds awfully
close to an ad hoc ergo prompter hoc fallacy.  Could there not be other
factors at work in this scenario?

 

Regarding my comparison between lives saved by capital punishment verses the
elimination of an occasional inappropriately applied execution:  It is just
inconceivable that the very small number of innocents executed by the state
could possibly come close to the number of future victims of predators
spared execution.  It is silly to demand studies in support of the blatantly
obvious.

 

You misquote me when you say that I regard it as "OK" that an occasional
innocent should be executed.  I of course never said that.  I regard it as a
tragic but unavoidable consequence of the administering of justice by
fallible human beings.

 

With regard to my Mom's money,  I spent it pursuing something far more
important than logic:  Booze and broads.

 

Making Mommy proud,  --Tony

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