Paedophile to be beheaded and crucified in Saudi Arabia for string of sex attacks whe

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Originally Posted by OneBadV8

Sort of... how many more would there have been if they sent them to prison where they get 3 meals a day, A/C, TV, exercise equipment and all the other things we give our criminals... He'd be out in what, 10 years? We have way more than 56.

Just saying, maybe it deters more than one thinks

Good point.

Our criminal justice system and the death penalty is based on the same principle: Disincetivize an criminal action by having strong negative consequences.

Dr. John Lott makes a strong case, from an economist's point of view, why capital punishment works. Granted, what may work in one society may not work in another, but as a matter of behavior, even animals respond to reward/punishment consequences. No reason why they would not work on most humans.