Posted by Doug on March 21, 1999 at 14:06:44 {MWwTRricOV6gE}:
In Reply to: ***Realization posted by J.H. on March 21, 1999 at 10:01:50:
Good points, Jan.
:In addition, it can be easily observed that the places where there are capital punishment has a much higher crime rate.
If so, then what's the correlation between the two?
I mean, it seems unreasonable to me to conclude that capital punishment actually encourages a higher crime rate.
The only correlation I can see is that perhaps some of those nations that have capital punishment enacted capital punishment BECAUSE the crime (I mean murder) rate was viewed as out-of-control.
Any thoughts on this?
Doug