[lbo-talk] Dean: hang 'em high!

JBrown72073 at cs.com JBrown72073 at cs.com
Fri Jun 20 11:32:15 PDT 2003



>I wonder if these recurrent
>discussion themes are a spiral or a circle

We hope an upward rather than a downward spiral.

So we know the death penalty isn't a deterrent for most violent crime, but is it a deterrent for the likes of Kissinger or Pinochet? (Recognizing that the sample of those who faced such a deterrent is damnably small.) There's the theory that the threat of revolution (or actual neighboring revolutions) sometimes restrains these types from more egregious crimes.

Jenny Brown



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