From: Charlie Stross (charlie@antipope.org)
Date: Wed Dec 02 1998 - 06:08:29 MST
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 11:02:15PM -0500, John Clark wrote:
>
> I found some interesting statistics, in the USA the average time spent in jail
> for someone convicted of homicide is 5 years 11 months. There are 3219
> people on death row, one in 12 had been convicted of murder before.
That's preposterous. I'm not going to repost my comments on the UK's
approach -- but I think even death penalty proponents might agree that
eighteen-year average terms are a bit closer to the mark than 5 years 11
months.
-- Charlie
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