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Originally Posted by rogermevans
funny thier crime rates are mostly higher than ours 
as to what happened they should lock them up and throw away the keys sadly they wont  |
I'll second that roger, the US has the harshest penal system in the western world but it hasn't made them any safer as a nation.
I've no doubt that if capital and corporal punishment really did deter crime other western nations would adopt it, but it doesn't in my opinion it just brutalizes society as a whole.
But where I do disagree with our system are the paltry sentences, when the death penalty was abolished in the 60s part of the proviso was that in cases where the black cap would've came out, life in jail would mean life and no parole.