Comments on: Dear Editor: Death Penalty https://sedonaeye.com/dear-editor-death-penalty/ Local News From All Points of View Mon, 25 Oct 2010 02:08:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Andrea https://sedonaeye.com/dear-editor-death-penalty/comment-page-1/#comment-6064 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 02:08:03 +0000 https://sedonaeye.com/?p=9762#comment-6064 Matthew,

In your comment you mentioned :”It is not just wishful thinking that states can do without the death penalty. Generally, states that do not have capital punishment have lower homicide rates than states that have capital punishment.” Can you document the states that do NOT have capital punishment, but have lower homicide rate? I seem to recall that the State of Texas has a lower homicide rate because of their adherence to the death penalty.

Unfortunately the criminal elements do not follow the accepted Judeo/Crhristian beliefs and do not seem to respect the human life they take. On the other hand, they fear the consequences that may come about if they were to take it.

Even though I agree with your concept, I fear that the lack of the death penalty might not be enough of a deterrent to prevent further cases of homicide.

Tanti auguri alla citta di Roma, dove sono cresciuto.

Sinceramente,

Andrea

]]> By: Glenn https://sedonaeye.com/dear-editor-death-penalty/comment-page-1/#comment-6063 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:55:44 +0000 https://sedonaeye.com/?p=9762#comment-6063 Sorry to inform you there really isn’t such a thing anymore as the death penalty.
When a person sits in prison for 20 to 50 years on death row how can you call it a death penalty. Many die of disease or old age way before their time. In the 50s they were executed within a year and that was a death penalty. Cain just killed Able but some of the things these criminals do today think even God would have second thoughts. Tell the people of relatives that got murdered from escaped criminals that it was good their lives were spared.

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