From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 10:18:59 MDT
Michael Wiik wrote:
death penalty applied in a manner
similar to the victim's death.
This might deter messy, gut-splattering, limb-chomping, head-splintering
type murders (axe, machinegun, chainsaw), but I could foresee an
increase in clean, minimal fuss murders (neurotoxin, needle, ice-pick)
unless somehow else deterred.
### Actually, criminological research fails to detect the kind of deterrent
effect you mention. The gut-splatterers are not reasonable and rational
enough to think ahead and consider the possibility of being subjected to the
chainsaw themselves.
Rafal
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