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In article <1992Dec10.184949.6610@glas.rtsg.mot.com> waider@glas.rtsg.mot.com (Ronan Waide) writes:
>Geoffrey Spear <gs32+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
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>>	So what you're saying is that it's ok to do illegal things if you don't
>>get caught?  In that case, anything done to RTM will have NO deterrent
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>to "severe punishment of RTM will deter others" - I believe it's been pretty 
>well established that punishment in the extreme [ I believe the canonical
>example is the death penalty for assorted crimes] does not actually impact the
>statistics noticeably;  [ ... ]

Not established.  Likely false.  Here's a reference-to-a-reference:
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>From: jalden@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Joshua M. Alden)
>Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns,soc.motss,talk.politics.misc
>Subject: Re: Homosexual rights
>Keywords: Barbarism, anachronism, random state murder
>Message-ID: <1991Jun6.155018.15569@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
>Date: 6 Jun 91 15:50:18 GMT
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>In <49995@ut-emx.uucp> rkcorell@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Michael Lax) writes:
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>>  The death penalty does NOT deter crime.
>
>    On the contrary.  The deterrent effect is significant and
>measurable, though only about 3.5 weeks long.  This is not really the
>appropriate forum, so I won't go into detail.  See _Sociology_, by
>Rodney Stark.
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