We’ve Heard That Song Before October 21, 2007
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So it’s time for my familiar score.
AP:
Polling has shown that the public increasingly believes that life in prison without parole will keep the worst offenders off the streets. A recent Associated Presss-Ipsos poll that asked what method of punishment people prefer for murderers found only a slight preference for the death penalty over life in prison - 52 percent to 46 percent.
Until they break out of prison, and kill someone else. If they’re not confined in a Pelican Bay or a Potosi, then they’re in gen-pop and an incessant threat to guards, inmates in prison for a less serious conviction, and (shudder the thought) wrongly convicted and incarcerated people.
At the same time, there have been several studies, challenged by the anti-death penalty camp, that have shown a deterrent effect in the use of capital punishment. Also, public support for executions remains high. More than two-thirds of those polled favor the death penalty for murderers when the question does not include other possible punishments.
And those studies demonstrate that somewhere between 3 and 18 lives are saved with each execution.
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