'Stay the same'?
Ask yourself a question. Have you ever parked illegally? - If the response is 'yes' then let me put this scenario before you:
If illegal parking carried a £10k fine, would you have done it? - The vast majority will answer 'no' but there would always be a tiny few who might just take the risk. Deterrence as a principle - proven.
If your life were threatened, and a firing squad awaited you for parking on a double yellow line, just how many people would then park illegally? (There would always - even then - be a handful.) But you KNOW exactly how people would respond.
Reconsider the scenario. In microcosm you have just proved DETERRENCE.
And in spite of downright lies on the topic by abolitionists - the statistics show this in spectacular fashion where murder rates are concerned - I know - I saw the stats when a JP!
If the facts of the loss of deterrent in the UK from 1964 were in the public eye, many - probably most of the 32% would change their view when they saw how many extra lives have been lost.
Had there been executions from 1964 until the present day - I suspect that there would have been fewer than 200. My rough calculations suggest that more than 15,000 EXTRA people have been murdered in that period not including the many hundreds murdered by those deemed to have 'served a life sentence' and have been released back into the population.
ASK WHY these stats are not published annually! The abolitionists are of the liberal left are in control and you must NOT be allowed to know the facts!
Many more than half of the people alive today cannot recall the changeover in 1965 because they weren't alive then. Amongst those of us who were, voting pro-death penalty would be in excess of 80% - as it always used to be.
There is a demonstrable answer to this deterrent issue. Take the homicides of the last 5 years and total them all up.
For the next five years make all murders capital and ensure that the very worst are actually executed. We may only be talking a few dozen.
Then at the end of the five years, tot up the number of homicides. I would personally wager my own life that there would be a major plummeting of the figures!
