Reply To: Capital Punishment

In the interest of fairness, the following must be added:

Many death penalty opponents don’t believe that capital punishment has a deterrent effect.

The further point out that the existence of capital punishment may put a criminal who has already murdered once in a “nothing to lose” mindset and make it more likely that he will kill again.

The frum community is overwhelmingly in favor of capital punishment, and it was a real issue in the early 90’s, when Pataki defeated Cuomo.