myrrh bait

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Originally Posted by King of Snake

please provide evidence to back up this "reality". Generally speaking, I think it's more realistic to say that no form of punishment has ever served (or worked very well) to stop crime, but is rather a form of retribution by society.
If a person is going to kill someone, it hardly matters if the punishment is 15 years in prison or a good old public flogging, neither is gonna deter him from his act.

capital punishment has been shown so many times over to *not* deter crime that its supporters have generally stopped using the the crime deterrent argument.

but hey maybe flogging will work where electrocution has failed. Makes perfect sense.