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ARTICLE TITLE: The Death Penalty
Does Not Deter Liberals
DATE: Monday 2 May 2011
AUTHOR: Mike Adams
AUTHOR
INFORMATION: Mike
S. Adams was born in Columbus, Mississippi on October 30, 1964. While a student
at Clear Lake High School in Houston, TX, his team won the state 5A soccer
championship. Adams graduated from C.L.H.S. in 1983 with a 1.8 GPA. He was
ranked 734 among a class of 740, largely as a result of flunking English all
four years of high school.
After
obtaining an Associate's degree in psychology from San Jacinto College, Mike
Adams moved on to Mississippi State University where he joined the Sigma Chi
Fraternity. While living in the fraternity house, his GPA rose to 3.4, allowing
him to finish his B.A., and then to pursue a Master's in Psychology. In 1990,
Adams turned down a chance to pursue a PhD in psychology from the University of
Georgia, opting instead to remain at Mississippi State to study
Sociology/Criminology. This decision was made entirely on the basis of his
reluctance to quit his night job as member of a musical duo. Playing music in
bars and at fraternity parties and weddings financed his education. He also
played for free beer.
Upon
getting his doctorate in 1993, Mike Adams, then an atheist and a Democrat, was
hired by UNC-Wilmington to teach in the criminal justice program. A few years
later, Adams abandoned his atheism and also became a Republican. He also nearly
abandoned teaching when he took a one-year leave of absence to study law at
UNC-Chapel Hill in 1998.
After
returning to teach at UNC-Wilmington, Mike Adams won the Faculty Member of the
Year award (issued by the Office of the Dean of Students) for the second time
in 2000.
After
his involvement in a well publicized free speech controversy in the wake of the
911 terror attacks, Mike Adams became a vocal critic of the diversity movement
in academia. He has since made appearances on shows like Hannity and Colmes,
the O'Reilly Factor, and Glenn Beck. His column on TownHall.com has earned him
countless hate mails - often from radical feminists who hate males.
Mike
Adams published his first book, Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel, in 2004.
His second book, Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect
Professor Confronts "Womyn" On Campus, was published in 2008. Later
that year, Adams joined the faculty of Summit Ministries in Colorado where he
spends his summers lecturing against abortion and in favor of First Amendment
rights on college campuses.
In
addition to lecturing on the First Amendment, Mike Adams is actively involved
in legal challenges to campus censorship. Represented by the ADF, he won a
landmark First Amendment case before the 4th Circuit in Richmond, VA. Decided
in 2011, Adams v UNCW held that professors publishing columns and giving
speeches have the full protection of the First Amendment when discussing
matters of public concern. Hence, when professors report such activities as
part of their annual review, tenure, or promotion materials the university does
not have license to discriminate on the basis of the professor's viewpoint.
Dr.
Adams next book, Letters to a Young Progressive, will be published in April
of 2013. He plans to spend the profits on new guns made by Browning and old
guitars made by Fender.
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Mike Adams
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Liberals are
compassionate people. That’s why they support abortion and oppose the death
penalty. They figure it’s best to kill a majority of black children before they
are born. If they did not, a small minority of those black children would later
commit homicide. Liberals are not just compassionate people. They’re logical,
too.
Because of their
undying commitment to expanding abortion rights I always welcome moral advice
from liberals. That’s why I was nearly moved to tears after I read a new report
from Appalachian State University Professor Dr. Matthew Robinson. His
“scientific” report asserts that the death penalty system in North Carolina
costs millions of dollars a year and does not make our state safer.
What Professor
Robinson does not report is that the abolitionist movement is the sole reason
for the higher-than-expected expense and lower-than-expected deterrent value of
capital punishment. The death penalty is expensive because abolitionists level
costly appeals – even in cases where they know the condemned is guilty and has
had a fair trial.
Put simply, the
abolitionist wants to get rid of the death penalty regardless of guilt and
regardless of process. And the impact of these endless appeals is predicable:
It undermines the deterrent capacity of the death penalty.
If the liberal
reader cannot understand why a fifteen year delay between crime and punishment
undermines deterrence then just try this little two-step experiment: 1) The
next time your fifteen-year old breaks a rule tell him he will be grounded when
he turns thirty. 2) See if you can count to ten before he decides to
recidivate.
Dr. Robinson also
says that the death penalty “poses a serious risk to innocent people.” I have a
similar concern with abortion. I think it might pose a pretty serious risk to
innocent people. So, for me, the solution lies in the appellate process.
Here’s my plan:
When a woman decides to abort, opponents of abortion should be able to file
appeals on behalf of the baby. If we can just drag out the process for fifteen
years or more then, who knows, we might be able to reduce the risk abortion
poses to innocent people.
The learned
Professor Robinson says that ''All the data point to one obvious conclusion …
Our state's capital punishment system is broken, and our lawmakers should take
a serious look at whether it is still serving the interests of North
Carolina.'' Well, he’s right about that. We haven’t executed anyone in five
years in this state. The abolitionists have certainly managed to break down the
system.
Professor Robinson
recently participated in a press conference with three other learned scholars -
Dr. Frank Baumgartner and Dr. Seth Kotch of UNC Chapel Hill and Dr. Miriam
DeLone of Fayetteville State University. They all agreed that the death penalty
is both an ineffective and unfair punishment – although they said nothing at
the press conference about the inherent unfairness of terminating 51% of black
pregnancies in the name of “choice.”
''Among other
things, this report shows us that the death penalty does not deter crime,''
said Professor Baumgartner. ''We haven't executed anyone since 2006, and the
murder rate has gone down. If the death penalty isn't making us safer, why do
we cling to this punishment?''
Baumgartner failed
to mention that the crime rate rose every single year between 1967 and 1977
when there were no executions in America. He also failed to mention that after
eighteen years of increases the crime rate finally leveled off in 1978. That
was the year after the death penalty made a comeback in America.
Of course, we are
all guilty of suppressing statistics when they make us feel somewhat
uncomfortable. Every summer when ice cream sales increase the murder rate
increases, too. But I don’t talk about it often. I really like ice cream. Did I
mention that I like “social science” professors who make really complex
statistical arguments?
Professor
Robinson’s study asserts that decreased use of the death penalty has been
followed by a decrease in murder. But that’s only half of the story. The
increase in gun sales and issuance of concealed weapons permits has been
followed by a decrease in murder, which has reduced the need for executions in
North Carolina. But Robinson tries to keep things simple. He’s writing mostly
for a liberal audience.
Robinson also
asserts that innocent people are being wrongly sentenced to death. He notes
that seven people have been exonerated and freed from North Carolina's death
row since 1973. I’m glad he chose the year 1973 as a reference point. Since
then, no wrongfully condemned person has been freed from a North Carolina
abortion clinic. The criminal justice system is broken but, look, the health
care system works just perfectly!
Robinson concluded
a recent interview by asking, ''What do we get for all the money we spend on
the death penalty?'' He humbly answered his own question saying, ''We get a
punishment that is almost never used, that is mired in racial bias and that
threatens the lives of innocent people. It defies logic to continue using a
system like that.''
In recent years,
the abortion rate has been dropping slightly – as has been the murder rate.
Imagine if abortion were mired in racial bias or threatened the lives of
innocent people. Then both logic and sanctimonious professors would defy its
continued use.
Mike Adams
Mike Adams is a
criminology professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and author
of Feminists
Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts
"Womyn" On Campus.
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