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Originally Posted by Jerrek
It *does* work if your punishment is swift and hard.
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Like, say, chopping off someone's hand for theft? If it works so well, there would be *no* more amputations after the first one...
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It worked in the early 1900s. It is with this new "modern" approach that crime is escalating.
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Prove it! Oh, you can't, because you have no idea what would have happend had we done it a different way.
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Death penalty as a deterrant for murder? Doesn't work.
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Saudi Arabia and Singapore say otherwise.
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And let's see what some people have to say about that:
http://www.amnesty.org.au/deathpenalty/singapore.html
And what about the good old US of A...??
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/arti...cid=12&did=168