Dorina obviously does not agree with Bob Walsh and me when we say that the death penalty does act as a deterrent to premeditated killings and felony murders.
Let me reiterate a previous statement I made: When I was a California cop (before Gov. Jerry 'Moonbeam' Brown appointed Rose Bird as chief supreme court justice) the state was still executing murderers. There was solid empirical evidence that the death penalty does act as a deterrent. Back then, many armed robberies were committed with empty guns. It was common practice for us to ask a crook why he committed a robbery using an empty gun. The response almost always went something like, ‘I won’t carry a loaded piece because if I do, I might kill someone in a moment of panic, and I don’t want to get topped (executed).’
Here is Dorina’s latest comment:
Nice try guys - but you all fail miserably trying to convince me that the death penalty is a deterrent to crime.
Actually, there is an abundance of evidence that the death penalty has a brutalizing effect on society. Take a look at the list of countries by incarceration rate (per capita).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
The USA correctional authorities should seriously consider improving food quality that is fed to prisoners. Good nutrition is essential and vital to psychological and physical good health, which in turn improves human behaviour leading to less crime.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/editorials/prison-diet-seems-a-bit-crook/story-e6frfhqo-1226013133005
Have a nice day !!!
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I knew I would be unable to convince you Dorina. You have a claasical liberal mindset that is incapable of acknowledging error. (Did you ever get around to reading that book I suggested, The Vision of the Annointed, by Thomas Sowell?)
I was the kitchen Sergeant at a fair size state prison for two years. I can assure you the food is of excellent nutritional value and is, for the most part, even pretty well presented. It is not at all like slopping the hogs or bread and water or whatever you seem to think is going on. Even the Grand Jury, which regularly inspects California prisons, is typically suitably impressed.
Clearly we are never going to agree on Capital Punishment. There are some subjects (abortion is another one) with very little gray area and each side tends to be absolutely sure of their position, often for personal or religious reasons having nothing to do with the actual argument.
Have a nice day. Try not to get murdered by a previously convicted killer now released from custody. It would be bad for you.
Dorina, please let me add to what Bob said.
During my professional career, I visited prisons in California, Arizona and Texas. While I was on the faculty of Sam Houston State University, I conducted the first and only group therapy sessions for inmates of the Texas Department of Corrections.
I have seen what inmates are fed in America's prisons and I can assure you that the food is good and plentiful. There may be a few prisons where this is not the case, but they are the exception, not the rule.
Belive me when I tell you that over the weeks I have come to rally like you. So let me make a suggestion. Stop relying on the studies of unfounded complaints by inmates, their families and friends and those determined to discredit our country. When you rely on them, including those you cited, you only end up discrediting yourself.
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