01-04-2007, 02:36 PM | #41 | |
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uhhhh...Iberian Peninsula? Looks like a mosque but that doesn't help me too much. There are mosques everywhere, right? What do I know? I've never even been out of the country. Unless you count Texas, which they used to say was "A whole other country." |
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01-04-2007, 03:47 PM | #42 | |
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Does a jury cost more in a death penalty case than a nondeath penalty case? As far as I know, the jury fees are statutorily established irrespective of the crime. And unless the studies have changed since I last reviewed them, the severity of penalty was not the deterring factor but the certainty of penalty. The difficulty with deterrents under our system is that penalty, be it incarceration or death, is uncertain. Hence, criminals are not deterred. In countries where penalties are more certain crime rates tend to be lower. In Singapore, which has the death penalty, crime rates are relatively low. In sum, I challenge the validity of those cost analyses, because they don't make sense, and usually incorporate so many fixed costs that the government pays whether we have a trial or not. For example, if a trial takes longer, they figure a larger portion of the judge's salary. That's nonsense.
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