{"id":1212,"date":"2010-11-10T22:55:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T05:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2010-11-10T22:56:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T05:56:10","slug":"love-your-neighbor-support-the-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=1212","title":{"rendered":"Love your neighbor = support the death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Connecticut man was sentenced to death Monday for a night of terror inside a suburban home.\u00a0 Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/canadianpress\/article\/ALeqM5ib69vEmr4R2P-UrvrxToOch86_Mg?docId=5088501\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that the ELCA is committed to the abolition of the death penalty?<a href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Read the ELCA policy statement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elca.org\/What-We-Believe\/Social-Issues\/Social-Statements\/Death-Penalty.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and a critique <a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/2006\/deathpenalty.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Where do you stand? With the jury? Or the ELCA?<\/p>\n<p>A series of academic studies over the last decade has shown that the death penalty acts as a deterrent to murder. Each execution deters an average of 18 murders, according to a 2003 nationwide study by professors at Emory University. (Other studies have estimated the deterred murders per execution at three, five and 14). \u00a0Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2007\/06\/11\/national\/main2911428.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScience does really draw a conclusion. It did. There is no question about it,&#8221; said Naci Mocan, an economics professor at the University of Colorado. &#8220;The conclusion is there is a deterrent effect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A 2003 study Mocan co-authored, and a 2006 study that re-examined the data, found that each execution results in five fewer homicides, and commuting a death sentence means five more homicides.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results are robust, they don&#8217;t really go away,\u201d he said. \u201cI have opposed the death penalty, but when my results show that the death penalty (deters) &#8212; what am I going to do, hide them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liberal law professor, University of Chicago&#8217;s Cass Sunstein, another critic of the death penalty,\u00a0responded to these findings:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIf it\u2019s the case that executing murderers prevents the execution of innocents by murderers, then the moral evaluation is not simple.\u201d Read <a href=\"http:\/\/staugustine.com\/stories\/061107\/nation_4649311.shtml \" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent,\u201d as Adam Smith wrote. See Thomas Sowell on the death penalty <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/ThomasSowell\/2001\/06\/15\/mcveigh_and_the_death_penalty\/page\/1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" height=\"8\" width=\"1\"><br \/><a href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>The \u201cmission\u201d of the ELCA includes political lobbying on this and other issues through its one national and 19 state lobbying offices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Connecticut man was sentenced to death Monday for a night of terror inside a suburban home.\u00a0 Read here. Did you know that the ELCA is committed to the abolition of the death penalty?[1] Read the ELCA policy statement here and a critique here. Where do you stand? With the jury? Or the ELCA? 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