I hate to repeat myself, but Sheriff Joe in AZ has the answer.

John Lee



At 01:29 PM 10/13/04 -0400, Brice Yokem wrote:
>I have a very simple math formula to support the death penalty.  Stats are
>like 10% of the criminals commit 80% of the crime, so you kill that 10% and
>suddenly there is hardly any crime left, and because they are dead, there
>is no chance to get back out on the street and commit more crimes.  Harsh
>punishment is actually a detriment, the problem with the death penalty is
>not that we have it, but that it is so rarely used and takes so long to be
>enforced that it isn't really seen as a detriment.  Personally if my
>choices are life in prison and the death penalty, I'd take the death
>penalty, who wants to sit in prison your whole life, which is just a slow
>death penalty.
>
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>Shawn -
>
>I think our Criminal Justice system is broken.  It has devolved from
>a system for disciplining criminals, to one that employs people who
>work in the legal system.  That has to change for it to work properly.
>
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