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"Would" or "would not" is a matter of opinion. It IS not, in part because some people think they won't get caught. More often, though, serious crimes of violence are committed in the heat of the moment, when the person is not thinking rationally about the consequences of their actions. Therefore potential consequences are not a deterrent.
Once the death penalty has been carried out, those that have been executed are deterred forever. What the real shame is it takes about 12-15 years of appeals and overviews before one is executed.
Ecc. 8:11 "Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil."
Ecc. 8:11 "Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil."
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When criminal scientists talk about deterrents to crime, they're talking about deterrents to committing a crime in the first place. The potential consequence of a death penalty has not been shown to effectively deter the initial commission of a capital crime.
Your argument makes terminal cancer just as much of a deterrent to crime as the death penalty.
Your argument makes terminal cancer just as much of a deterrent to crime as the death penalty.
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Once the death penalty has been carried out, those that have been executed are deterred forever. What the real shame is it takes about 12-15 years of appeals and overviews before one is executed.
Ecc. 8:11 "Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil."
Ecc. 8:11 "Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil."
They are deterred from committing more crime.
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There is progressive revelation in the Bible and the NT teaches that we survive, fully conscious after death. But talking to the dead is only permissible when God allows discarnate souls to initiate contact in a visionary or auditory ADC. As a pastor, I saw what a comforting and powerful way this is to ease our grief and make us rejoice in the Lord's promises. I will be laying out the case for immediate postmortem survival in my NDE and ADC thread, when I finish my litany of case histories which have been a blessing to so many.
Social science research....yup always so valid and reliable
