CS: Misc-Death Penalty

[jonathan]

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 What is probably certain is that the abolition of the
 act whereby if one member of a gang committed a murder ALL were guilty of it
 and thus ALL hanged did lead to a rise in murder during the course of armed
 robberies by gangs.

Read something recently about Florida. Apparently if you 
are comitting a felony and your accoumplice gets killed 
by your intended victim then anyone else involved in the 
crime can be convicted of Murder regardless of weather 
or not they actually had anything diretly to do with the 
death.

Jonathan Laws
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I think I've had my fill of Florida law for the time being!

Steve.


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CS: Misc-Death Penalty

[Richard Loweth]

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Perhaps the reality is that the death penalty was never a deterrent to
murder...after all when you murder someone you do it presuming that you
actually won't get caughtso the "tariff" is irrelevant, but a deterrent
to crimes of violence. What is probably certain is that the abolition of the
act whereby if one member of a gang committed a murder ALL were guilty of it
and thus ALL hanged did lead to a rise in murder during the course of armed
robberies by gangs.
On the other hand in the US the belief that kidnapping was a capital offence
directly led to the murder documented in the book "The Onion Field".
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Believe me, the death penalty is a deterrent to the person
who gets it!  I just think life in prison is worse.

Steve.


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