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What scares you more: the death penalty or life imprisonment?
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What scares you more: the death penalty or life imprisonment?

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(I need some more personal opinions for an essay I'm writing)


    




donfletcheryh
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I am getting on in age, so the thought of life in prison is not a major deterrent, I have so little life left anyway.
Death penalty would also not change my life expectancy that much. I am already a year and a half past my best before date, so it does not frighten me.

I doubt that either penalty would ever have persuaded me to avoid, for example murder. Avoiding the crime because it is wrong to do it would be what prevents my offending. I would find that having the public associate my name with such a crime would be my reason to avoid doing the crime.

I doubt that for instance most murderers carefully evaluate the penalty before the crime. We do not see a really solid difference in crime rates that we can say is a result of having or not having capital punishment. Certainly few of us would go out directly to murder were capital punishment implemented or revoked.





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