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   Don Swayser wrote:   
   > .... Contrary to your contention the deasth[sic] penalty is a   
   > deterent[sic] to violence of the most extreme form, murder.   
   > The death penalty wasn't applied, until recent years,   
   > since the mid-seventies. The murder rate rose during   
   > those years. Since the death penalty is again being   
   > pronounced the murder rate has declined. It is now down   
   > to pre-ban rates. Those are the facts....   
      
   Those may be "facts" but it is a fallacy to assume that the   
   removal of the death penalty caused a rise in the murder   
   rate. Texas has been offing people for a long time and their   
   death row is still packed. Those that claim that capital   
   punishment is a deterrent know nothing about, and aren't   
   interested in, studying criminal behavior. They just want   
   revenge.   
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