re: Question for supporters of the death penalty

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Would you support the death penalty for crimes like the one Bernie Madoff perpetuated for 2 decades?

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Not a chance.

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I just finished reading No One Would Listen, and what that a-hole did, and how many lives he absolutely destroyed is almost unimaginable.

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Indeed.

However, lest your heart break too much for the "victims", you should know most were far from being pure and innocent themselves. Madoff's was a Jewish Fund. Others were fairly unwelcome. The fund's exclusion of gentile involvement made his program more attractive to Jewish investors, not less. That speaks for itself.

Further, while many life savings were lost, the quantitation of loss was not often stated as the amount invested, but rather the total amount investors thought they had accrued.

Never will forget a lady crying in front of cameras saying she'd "invested $3.5Million with Madoff, and had lost it all."

Translation?
She invested $250K with Madoff in 1989. She thought it's value was escalating at >13%/yr. So after 20 yrs, she thought she had >$3M invested. She never had anything close to that.