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Sunday, November 4, 2012

PRO DEATH PENALTY QUOTE OF THE WEEK [SUNDAY 4 NOVEMBER 2012 TO SATURDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2012]






















QUOTE: “Citing a high murder rate in Texas makes as little sense as citing Michigan or the District of Columbia - both places with much higher than average murder rate - as examples of how. Comparing the United States with other countries is equally pointless. There are very stable countries like Switzerland or Japan with low murder rates (one has the death penalty, the other not) or point to countries like Brazil with murder rates much worse than the United States.”

AUTHOR: Joshua Marquis (born 1952) is an attorney and politician from Astoria, Oregon in the United States. He has served as District Attorney for Clatsop County since 1994. He frequently writes and speaks about capital punishment. He is known for his belief that the death penalty is justified in some cases. He is often quoted as a spokesperson on behalf of the National District Attorneys Association.

APPLICATION: Abolitionists claimed that in America, the States without the death penalty have lower homicide rates than those that have it. They will use it as an excuse to say that the death penalty does not deter murders because of the high homicide rates. However, there are cities like Detroit (Michigan State) and DOC who do not have the death penalty, but a high homicide rate too. I agree with Joshua Marquis that comparing homicide rates are pointless, as it is like comparing the United States with Mexico.

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