re: Malnourished Shreveport Teen Hospitalized; Woman Arrested

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At the mall on a Saturday afternoon,

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I'm not a fan of capital punishment because DAs are often crooked or dumb, witnesses are often unreliable and later proven wrong, judges and juries make mistakes, etc. ...

BUT I've said since I was a kid that if deterrence is a goal of the death penalty, executions should be televised in prime time. Instead, they are usually conducted late at night with few witnesses and no recording. That is pussified and ineffective as a deterrence.