PRO DEATH PENALTY QUOTE OF THE WEEK [SUNDAY 19 AUGUST 2012 TO SATURDAY 25 AUGUST 2012]

QUOTE: “A lot of the violent crimes in West Virginia are committed by people living outside the state”, Faircloth said.

"It is so bad for law enforcement and the prosecutors to keep up," he said. "And perhaps if we sent a stronger message to those criminals, maybe they would conduct their business elsewhere or get prosecuted. If they've taken the lives of another person, they would give up their own lives for that activity.

"I'm a Christian, and we have to do something. Year by year, it is getting worse," he added. "Innocent people are dying. Officers across the country who defend us every day, their lives are being taken by people who are running criminal operations. I think it is time for somebody to step up and offer that as a solution to the problem." [Monday 21 February 2011]

AUTHOR: Larry Faircloth (born 23 July 1948) is a Republican politician from West Virginia.

Application: The abolitionists always claim that states without the death penalty have lower homicide rates than states with it. But according to Larry Faircloth, states without the death penalty have murders committed by people who come from states with the death penalty. Abolitionists are not telling the public that homicide rates will go up when the state abolished the death penalty, just look at Illinois.