23 people were executed in the United States in 2017, the lowest number in 25 years

[PoliticalChic]

What I like about Texas is they aren't afraid to carry out the death penalty like it was an assembly line at a factory. .....

The last meal has become a buffet.....

...and they use the electric sofa so they can take 5 at a time.....

 

[Anathema]

23 executions in one year across the entire United States? That DISGUSTS me....

That shoild be a slow MONTH in most states. If we were actually interested in having a Justice System that punishes criminals and dissades others from committing crimes in the first place.

 

[deanrd]

we need the death penalty for Kate's killer!

U.S. Had 23 Executions in 2017, Second-Lowest Number in a Quarter-Century

Actually, anyone walking down the street unarmed and was shot dead by the police was executed. That makes it more than 23.

 

[Anathema]

Actually, anyone walking down the street unarmed and was shot dead by the police was executed. That makes it more than 23.

Which is a good thing.

 

[Sunni Man]

My main gripe about not carrying out the death penalty is economic.

It's estimated to cost $50+ thousand per year to warehouse a death row inmate in state prison. So basically, every twenty years the taxpayer has forked out over a million dollars to keep alive someone who's sentence should have been carried out long ago. ......

 

[Anathema]

My main gripe about not carrying out the death penalty is economic.

It's estimated to cost $50+ thousand per year to warehouse a death row inmate in state prison. So basically, every twenty years the taxpayer has forked out over a million dollars to keep alive someone who's sentence should have been carried out long ago. ......

Then get the fucking Judiciary out of the way and (to quote a former CT Governor) "Let's light up Old Sparky" (The electric chair). Give these fuckers 2 EXPEDITED appeals... State Supreme Court and SCOTUS. 24 hours after thats over, kill them.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Stop beating off.

 

[Jarlaxle]

My main gripe about not carrying out the death penalty is economic.

It's estimated to cost $50+ thousand per year to warehouse a death row inmate in state prison. So basically, every twenty years the taxpayer has forked out over a million dollars to keep alive someone who's sentence should have been carried out long ago. ......

For the hundredth time: it costs MORE to execute someone than to keep them in prison for life.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Life in prison with no chance of parole is far worse punishment than execution.

No matter how many times you regurgitate this, it is still bullshit.

 

[Jarlaxle]

The US is slowly moving away from capital punishment. It is long overdue. Most of the civilized world is appalled by it

The majority of our states have either banned it or no longer use it. With the exception of the Bible Belt who insist on "eye for an eye" justice, Capital Punishment is extinct

Until people get sick of the assholes getting 3 hots and a cot, or begging for parole when in their 80's.

For States with people that still expect it as part of justice, they may decide to take justice in their own hands.

Here is my trade for no capital punishment. replace the Death penalty with having to break up a rock, 8 hours a day. then when broken you have to put it back together with crazy glue. when done, you get a new rock.

No work on rock, no food.

50-80 years of that would satisfy me enough to get rid of the death penalty. 50-80 years of 3 hots and a cot for someone who probably doesn't mind it doesn't work for some crimes.

How many innocent people are you willing to kill to sate your bloodlust?

 

[Jarlaxle]

Hopefully the numbers will increase in 2018 .....

If one allows a killer to live, he infracts the image of God. This is the only law in all five books of the OT.

Again: how many innocent people are you willing to kill to sate your bloodlust?

 

[Meathead]

Again: how many innocent people are you willing to kill to sate your bloodlust?

None. I am willing to kill for their bloodlust.

 

[rightwinger]

My main gripe about not carrying out the death penalty is economic.

It's estimated to cost $50+ thousand per year to warehouse a death row inmate in state prison. So basically, every twenty years the taxpayer has forked out over a million dollars to keep alive someone who's sentence should have been carried out long ago. ......

For the hundredth time: it costs MORE to execute someone than to keep them in prison for life.

Mostly, it shows to the world that we are barbarians
All for the blood lust of a few states

 

[Jarlaxle]

Again: how many innocent people are you willing to kill to sate your bloodlust?

None. I am willing to kill for their bloodlust.

Evasion. Again: how many innocent people are you willing to kill to sate your bloodlust? Give me a number.

 

[Meathead]

Again: how many innocent people are you willing to kill to sate your bloodlust?

None. I am willing to kill for their bloodlust.

Evasion. Again: how many innocent people are you willing to kill to sate your bloodlust? Give me a number.

It's not evasion FFS: NONE = ZERO

 

[rightwinger]

Again: how many innocent people are you willing to kill to sate your bloodlust?

None. I am willing to kill for their bloodlust.

Evasion. Again: how many innocent people are you willing to kill to sate your bloodlust? Give me a number.

They look at it as collateral damage

 

[Jarlaxle]

Again: how many innocent people are you willing to kill to sate your bloodlust?

None. I am willing to kill for their bloodlust.

Evasion. Again: how many innocent people are you willing to kill to sate your bloodlust? Give me a number.

It's not evasion FFS: NONE = ZERO

Then you are in favor of ending the death penalty. Good to know.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Again: how many innocent people are you willing to kill to sate your bloodlust?

None. I am willing to kill for their bloodlust.

Evasion. Again: how many innocent people are you willing to kill to sate your bloodlust? Give me a number.

They look at it as collateral damage

Fuck off, trollboy.

 

[Anathema]

How many innocent people are you willing to kill to sate your bloodlust?

To ensure we get the guilty ones I'm willing to kill ALL the innocent ones.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Hopefully the numbers will increase in 2018 .....

If one allows a killer to live, he infracts the image of God. This is the only law in all five books of the OT.

Again: how many innocent people are you willing to kill to sate your bloodlust?

What a stupid comment.

The correct imposition of the death penalty sames countless innocent lives.



Capital Punishment Works
By ROY D. ADLER and MICHAEL SUMMERS
November 2, 2007; Page A13

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Capital Punishment Works

"Recent high-profile events have reopened the debate about the value of capital punishment in a just society. This is an important discussion, because the taking of a human life is always a serious matter.

Most commentators who oppose capital punishment assert that an execution has no deterrent effect on future crimes. Recent evidence, however, suggests that the death penalty, when carried out, has an enormous deterrent effect on the number of murders. More precisely, our recent research shows that each execution carried out is correlated with about 74 fewer murders the following year.

For any society concerned about human life, that type of evidence is something that should be taken very seriously.

The study examined the relationship between the number of executions and the number of murders in the U.S. for the 26-year period from 1979 to 2004, using data from publicly available FBI sources. The chart nearby shows the number of executions and murders by year. There seems to be an obvious negative correlation in that when executions increase, murders decrease, and when executions decrease, murders increase.

In the early 1980s, the return of the death penalty was associated with a drop in the number of murders. In the mid-to-late 1980s, when the number of executions stabilized at about 20 per year, the number of murders increased. Throughout the 1990s, our society increased the number of executions, and the number of murders plummeted. Since 2001, there has been a decline in executions and an increase in murders.

It is possible that this correlated relationship could be mere coincidence, so we did a regression analysis on the 26-year relationship. The association was significant at the .00005 level, which meant the odds against the pattern being simply a random happening are about 18,000 to one. Further analysis revealed that each execution seems to be associated with 71 fewer murders in the year the execution took place.

While it is clear that the number of murders is inversely correlated to the number of executions, it is dangerous to infer causal relationships through correlative data. Causation can be a two-way street, but not in the case of capital punishment. It may be logical that more executions could lead to fewer murders, but it is not at all logical that fewer murders could cause more executions.

A second difficulty with strong correlative data is that of timing. Causes should come before effects, so we correlated each year's executions to the following year's murders and found the results to be even more dramatic. The association was significant at the .00003 level, which meant the odds against the random happening are longer than 34,000 to one. Each execution was associated with 74 fewer murders the following year.

Die-hard campaigners against capital punishment could argue that there might be yet a third variable, such as a stronger police presence or a population shift to urban areas, related to each of the other two variables. Such a variable might exist, but until it can be identified, Occam's razor suggests the simplest solution is probably the actual solution. We know that, for whatever reason, there is a simple but dramatic relationship between the number of executions carried out and a corresponding reduction in the number of murders.

The conclusion that each execution carried out is associated with the saving of dozens of innocent lives creates an extraordinarily difficult moral dilemma for those who campaign against the death penalty. Until now, those activists could look into the eyes of a convicted killer, hear his or her sad story, work tirelessly to set aside the execution and, with that goal accomplished, feel good about themselves for having "saved a life." These data suggest that the moral equation is not nearly that simplistic.

It now seems that the proper question to ask goes far beyond the obvious one of "do we save the life of this convicted criminal?" The more proper question seems to be "do we save this particular life, at a cost of the lives of dozens of future murder victims?" That is a much more difficult moral dilemma, which deserves wide discussion in a free society.

Mr. Adler is a professor of marketing and Mr. Summers is a professor of quantitative methods at Pepperdine University.

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