Re: New Mexico Repeals Death Penalty
"Allan Smith" <guesswho@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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dogg,
I've reviewed a century of capital crime rates by state, and have never
been able to see a difference between the states that have it, that don't,
or who, like New Mexico, have changed their laws in either direction at
some point. The FBI's aggregate rates from 2007 show that
non-death-penalty states had a murder rate of 4.10 per 100,000, while
death penalty states had a rate of 5.83 per 100,000. Even if one goes back
to 1990, not once did death-penalty states have a lower homicide rate than
non-death-penalty states.
From a social perspective, it simply does not appear to me to be an
effective deterrent, either on a national scale or state-by-state.
It's not meant as a deterrent to others, but as punishment for having
transcended a society's social codes in a way that merits its most severe
retribution. I doubt any criminal has considered the death penalty in the
heat of the crime. Getting caught is the greatest fear. Cesare Beccaria, an
18th-century criminologist went so far as to say that if every crime
resulted in a capture, the nature of the punishment wouldn't matter.
-- Ernie
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