Re: House Committee votes to abolish Death Penalty in Illinois!!! Archived Message
Posted by 3Dee on November 30, 2010, 1:23 pm, in reply to "Re: House Committee votes to abolish Death Penalty in Illinois!!!"
Wikipedia is not the be all, end all for statistics, but it nontheless gives someone perusing a 'snapshot' of the situation. When I wiki 'death penalty' it directs me to capital punishment. When it comes to the death penalty the USA is in some good company. In 2009, the United States was the number 5 state killer. We're only beat by: China, Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. That's right, we're in good company. There's a number of reasons to abolish the death penalty and realize it does NOTHING - NOT a DAMN THING - for society, except cost society more money. IT does not deter crime; that's for certain.
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