{"id":513,"date":"2007-06-11T17:29:58","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T14:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2007\/06\/11\/whaddyaknow-the-death-penalty-works\/"},"modified":"2007-06-11T17:29:58","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T14:29:58","slug":"whaddyaknow-the-death-penalty-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/11\/whaddyaknow-the-death-penalty-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Whaddyaknow? The Death Penalty Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have already seen this <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070611\/ap_on_re_us\/death_penalty_deterrence_4;_ylt=AnmG8KQd_oGfQjkElKG1K4wE1vAI\">AP story<\/a>, but in case you haven&#8217;t, here&#8217;s my little pointer to it.&nbsp; <em>Numerous<\/em> studies have been done on the effect of the death penalty on crime, and <em>all<\/em> of them show that it prevents murders.&nbsp; The studies disagree on approximately how many lives are saved, but it&#8217;s somewhere between 3 and 18.&nbsp; The other way to say this that you won&#8217;t hear coming from the mouth of a liberal or from the news media is this: whenever the life of a murderer is spared, you&#8217;re sentencing to death 3-18 other people.&nbsp; So argue over whether lethal injection causes pain; if you spare the guy&#8217;s life because of some incidental, short-lived pain, you&#8217;ve effectively killed 3-18 other people, most of whom will experience great pain.&nbsp; And none of whom will have had an extensive appeals process.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, you should know that most &#8220;enlightened&#8221; countries have abolished the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Death_penalty\">death penalty<\/a>, including Israel, all of Europe (except Belarus), Canada, Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have already seen this AP story, but in case you haven&#8217;t, here&#8217;s my little pointer to it.&nbsp; Numerous studies have been done on the effect of the death penalty on crime, and all of them show that it prevents murders.&nbsp; The studies disagree on approximately how many lives are saved, but it&#8217;s somewhere\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/11\/whaddyaknow-the-death-penalty-works\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}