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From: blenko@rochester.UUCP (Tom Blenko)
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Subject: Re: Value of Human Life vs. Value of Property
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Date: Sun, 2-Oct-83 12:29:50 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  2 12:29:50 1983
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I would sure love for one of you to explain to me how and why capital
punishment increases the incidence of murder and other violent crimes.
One of my high school teachers had a very simplistic argument in favor
of capital punishment (and stiffer jail sentences, and so forth) that I
have never been able to quite forget:  If you keep a violent criminal
off the streets, then he/she is never going to commit violent crimes
again (against the general population).

If you are really ambitious, you might try explaining this as well:
why is your (or my) distaste for capital punishment an argument against
it? I can think of any number of things I might like to have the world
without, but which nevertheless appear to occupy a more or less
permanent (and necessary) role in our world.

	Tom