Under penalty of perjury, a witness told the FBI back in 2016 that they had “personally witnessed” President Donald Trump threaten to “disappear” a girl and have her entire family killed, according to a document released by the Justice Department on Friday.Released as part of the DOJ’s publication o...
Yeah, like I said, I grew up with this subject, so you can save the condescending bullshit. It’s pathetic. Apparently you can’t conceive that others can actually disagree with someone as amazing as you, and you alone, find your intellect to be.
Give me one tangible, evidenced benefit. Not sure how you grew up with it and are still unable to figure out that your position is entirely supported by emotion.
You’re not going to insult me by suggesting that I respect my thinking on this topic.
Deterrence. And unlike most criminal cases, these are people who do indeed have other options and can easily make a choice not to run rape rings for the wealthy, can easily choose not to fuck children, etc.
Oh, so you don’t respect it either? Cool bro, fuck off now.
Hahaha I had a typo in the last sentence, but you go off on that if you need it bud.
The research is pretty clear that there is no demonstrable effect of the death penalty on deterrence (eg https://www.nationalacademies.org/read/13363/chapter/2), and the many other negative benefits would outweigh even minor positive benefits.
Yes - and that’s because most often it’s applied to people who have few alternatives to criminality. There isn’t a good deterrence when good alternatives don’t exist. This is looking at the general population, and the death penalty is not effective then.
Which is exactly what I stated above - it’s different when you’re dealing with elites, and there actually is a deterrence effect then.