Genuinely curious: were they actually able to cite any data or studies to show that the death penalty would help prevent crime?
Jhayr Rufin
Data is not relevant daw to the discussion. Said some lawmaker
Jose Zapatos
Even if the death penalty did prevent crime, what do you do with mistaken convictions?
Sabrina Trinidad Panlilio
Honest question. Since the death penalty will only apply to drug related crimes, if a guy drugs a girl's drink then rapes her, would that count?
Harold Wong
Prevention of subsequent offenses, maybe. I don't think the average criminal (more so a big-time one) thinks about the legal consequences of his actions at all, so it doesn't matter if the sentence will be jail or a hole in the ground.
Jose Zapatos
My Philo of Law prof told me that prevention is most correlated with likelihood of arrest-convicti on-punishment. (Not necessarily fear of death) … Because, if you won't even get caught… what's the point?
Jose Zapatos
Any system can be gamed for the best probable outcomes. So one important question is: ▪ Your system is consistently what? ▪
Harold Wong
Given backwards thinking in legislature, the girl might be the one in trouble because "she took the drugs." Victim blaming culture much?
Sabrina Trinidad Panlilio
That would be funny if it wasn't so believable
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