"Peter Gottlieb" wrote in message
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"Doug" wrote in message
...

while it was a joke it was a strong statement to those that want to
commit
crimes in The Great State of Texas... they will deal with you!!..
instead
they goto California or NY where liberals will hug you for your
murderous
and vilolent ways, Lord knows it couldn't be your fault....Public
hangings
will go a long way! ;-)


Your misconceptions are astounding.

That being said, the death penalty doesn't seem to be a very effective
deterrent anyhow.

Really?

Getting shot by potential victims is a deterrent (according to prison
interviews), but then the DP is so inconsistently invoked...

Two factors in any punishment are "consistency" and "certainty". Both those
are missing for the DP.