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How bouth a serial child molester, who killed his young victims after MONTHS of sexual, mental, physical, and spiritual abuse??
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Actually I imagine justice would be served better if you put this person in the general populace of a prison. This type of thing tends to err work itself out in a place such as this.
I am kinda suprised this hasn't been done in this thread already. I believe though we should compare our rate of violent crime to other industrialized nations. If I remember correctly we have one of the highest rates of violent crime per capita.
In 2001 Texas was #13 in violent crime per capita. If the death penalty was such a deterrent shouldn't Texas have a much lower crime rate than most other states?
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Melch