Teresa Lewis

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Originally Posted by saden1

The death penalty is not a good deterrent...the numbers just don't support any claim that it is. If you want to deter people from committing heinous crimes combat poverty and invest more in education.

Some people just deserve to be murked...we just need to admit that to ourselves so we can stop pretending the death penalty is about justice and as means to deter others...it's pure unadulterated eye-poking revenge.

I don't think we use the death penalty enough to know if its a deterrent. I mean whats the chance of someone getting executed?