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Originally Posted by Damien
The death penality has no effect on reducing crime
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Having said that, it does have an effect on reducing criminals
The problem with the death penalty is that there is too much potential for the wrong person to be punished. Obviously, in this case, the guy has been found guilty and sentenced accordingly.
However, I don't feel that the death penalty would be applicable
for the ricin issue (the fact that he murdered a policeman is another issue). With regards to the potential 'genocide', while he possessed the tools to harm / murder a fairly large amount of people, he didn't actually do it. As a result, if the death penalty was enforced, surely,
in this instance, it would have been enforced because of the potential for somebody to commit the crime, in which case we could all be in trouble because we
all have that potential.