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In article <greg.n.smith.206.00082034@daytonoh.ncr.com> greg.n.smith@daytonoh.ncr.com (Greg Smith) writes:
 
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:>>>Is your property more valuable than someone else's life?  Is _this_ the
:>>>attitude our country was founded upon?  I think _NOT_.
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:>>Back then they used to hang people in public for stealing horses (property). 
:>>It IS an attitude our country was founded on.  Maybe if they brought back 
:>>hangings we'd have less crime, eh?
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:and ZERO repeat offenders.  I don't support capital punishment for most 
:crimes, only violent crimes, and then only in the case of conviction beyond 

I will not get involved in this debate except to note that as a practical
matter if you have a death penalty for crimes less severe than murder, then
it costs the criminal nothing to kill his victim, rather than merely injuring/
maiming/etc.

I would expect the number of murders to increase under these conditions.

If you institute the death penalty for rape (for example), I would expect
a lot of rapists to kill their victims as well as raping them. Dead victims
tell no tales and the penalty is the same.
 
I think this point is commonly overlooked.
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