JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote:>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.
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