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Old 10-17-2009, 10:38 AM   #24
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Originally Posted by BlackVoid View Post
REALLY? Please provide the statistics. I believe in Europe - no death penalty - there are less murders than in the USA - death penalty.
The US only actually executes a fairly small percentage of prisoners on death row (i.e.: prisoners awaiting execution)... which means that the likelihood of dying as a result of being sentenced to death is actually smaller than the likelihood of death in some dangerous professions. Or so I read.

If that's true, as suggested by Sonist's caveat of "timely enforcement", that may well mean that the US has the death penalty without enjoying any meaningful deterrent force thereof... primarily because actually having the death penalty enforced on you, even if you are sentenced, is too unlikely.

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