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Originally Posted by Fishteacher73
This is a bleed over(forgive the bad pun) from the zero-tolerance thread.
1) Does capital punishment reduce crime?
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I'm not sure that it does. Do you have any good sources with statistics?
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2) Is captital punishment moral?
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I think it's wrong and does not have a place in a civilised society. I think it's more of a revenge type of punishment... if it can be called punishment at all. Certainly there's no punishment in being dead. I would suspect that the real punishment is the time the sentenced criminal is waiting to be executed. Even if this experience, for some reason, would actually turn this criminal into a better person, it's obviously lost and wasted as soon as he's executed.
