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   Don Swayser wrote:   
   > David V. wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Then you believe that the rise and fall of the murder   
   > rate which coincides with the abolition and reinstatement   
   > of the death penalty is a coincidence?   
      
   Yes. There is nothing to prove they are connected.   
      
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