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Punishment in sentence

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If I did not believe that, I would oppose capital punishment, because revenge and other possible motives should not be a basis for public policy.
Serious empirical research on capital punishment in the US began with a pioneering study by Isaac Ehrlich, published in 1975 in the American Economic Review.
Of course, public policy on any punishment cannot wait until the evidence is perfect.
But, even with the limited quantitative evidence available, there are good reasons to believe that capital punishment deters.
But the terrors of death offer considerable resistance…”Opponents of capital punishment frequently proclaim that the state has no moral right to take anyone’s life, including that of the most reprehensible murderer.
Yet that is absolutely the wrong conclusion for anyone who believes that capital punishment deters.
In fact, the government would indirectly be “taking” many lives if it did not use capital punishment.
Saving three innocent lives for every person executed seems like a very attractive trade-off, and even two lives saved per execution seems like a persuasive benefit-cost ratio for capital punishment.
Admittedly, however, the argument in favor of capital punishment becomes less clear-cut as the number of lives saved per execution falls.
This helps explain why capital punishment should be used only for murders, and not for lesser crimes.
Although severe assaults, including some gruesome rapes, may approach some murders in severity, and might conceivably call for capital punishment, I do not support its use in these cases.
A powerful argument for reserving capital punishment for murders is “marginal deterrence.”
One complication is that capital punishment may make a murderer fight harder to avoid being captured, which could lead to more deaths.
But, while marginal deterrence is important, I believe the resistance of murderers to being captured, possibly at the expense of their own lives, is really indirect evidence that criminals do fear capital punishment.
My support for capital punishment would weaken greatly if the rate of killing innocent people were as large as that claimed by many.
Again, the debate about capital punishment is essentially a debate about deterrence (which may be reduced by lengthy appeals).
Under the world’s very eyes, a capital – Grozny, with 400,000 inhabitants – has been razed for the first time since Hitler’s 1944 punishment of Warsaw.
Success brings its reward in the form of immediate punishment!
Indeed, in his speech announcing the annexation of Crimea, Putin spoke his mind: his regime fears no punishment and will do whatever it pleases.
Were the ECB to take aggressive action to bring them down, moral hazard would result: countries would face no punishment for delaying reforms.
A previous incident in which Strauss-Kahn was let off lightly for an improper relationship with a subordinate clearly suggests that the Fund needs brighter lines for acceptable behavior and tougher punishment for transgressions.
Voices on the right often claim that this inequality is not only justifiable, but also appropriate: wealth is a just reward for hard work, while poverty is an earned punishment for laziness.
Even before the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, America's image as a rights proponent had been tarnished, particularly in Europe, by its continued practice of capital punishment and, to a lesser degree, by its high incarceration rate--approximately seven times the average in the European Union's fifteen member countries.
In fact, they had discussed the possibility of Trump lifting sanctions that outgoing President Barack Obama had imposed on Russia as punishment for its interference in the election.
If, on the other hand, it works out a consensus on more economic and possibly even military punishment, the UN’s credibility would depend on whether these moves produce Iranian compliance.
If Berezovsky's punishment is more apparent than real, Berezovsky too will say nothing.
An accurate jump shot and the willingness to take punishment never made up for my size and mediocre leaping ability.
India also tightened the diplomatic screws on its recalcitrant neighbor, persuading other members of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC) to call off a planned summit in Islamabad as punishment for Pakistan’s bad behavior.
Although the sentence is still in limbo, Hussein publicized his acceptance of the punishment by inviting the official floggers to his office to demonstrate how an Islamic caning would be carried out.
They used a chair as a mock target, leaving him satisfied that Islamic caning can be appropriately used as a punishment for women.
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