Reply #106: Finally you ask [View All]

[dmallind]

God one state and one year's data! There's proof. How could I have been so wrong?

And yep unless we develop crystal ball technology any time soon, reoffending rates of convicted murderers are pretty damned logical things to use in deciding what to do with convicted murderers. What else should we use? Those ever so empirically established mental health screenings? Prison visitor reports? How much he promises not to do it again? All you have to do is come up with a better way to see if a specific criminal will reoffend than looking at similar offenders I'm listening - but that's the same logic that the entire life insurance, medical insurance, psychological counseling, actuarial, political science and demographic marketing industries are based on - that people in similar situations with similar responses and past behavior will have similar future responses and behavior

Exactly my point is exactly what you said - execution prevents further killing. Come up with something else that does with equal success and I'll buy it.

And yep the speeding tickets are an extremely minor but nice corollary.