Death Penalty revisited

Just read an article from the Herald-Sun (in Durham, NC) that was more than interesting. Seems research performed by members of the Emory University staff have come to a conclusion: the death penalty deters crime. Also, there has been research conducted by a professor at that liberal bastion, Harvard University, that supports these conclusions. Reportedly, one person that receives the death penalty prevents 18 additional murders.

We've always known most serious crimes are executed (no pun intended) by the same perps, especially rapes. There is support showing that in an effort to deter these crimes even further, the death penalty should be carried out in short order; less than two years after a conviction.

For years, I've argued that the death penalty has to be a deterent for hardened criminals. I've listened to the "bleeding hearts" state that statistics show the death penalty does NOT prevent high crimes. My question was always, "Where are those stats? If you can show them to me, then I'd be more inclined to believe you. Then again, how do we know if we continue to absolve of the death penalty." I was never presented with the stats that were so generously spewed.

This is enlightening since it really is common sense, and has been all along. If you know you could die rather than live while committing murder, wouldn't you, as a human being, be less inclined to commit the crime in the first place? You can't change human nature, even the beasts among us. The "bleeding hearts" tend to lose all the common sense they were given when it comes to the high hopes of rehabilitating a murderous mindset. Rehab has failed one too many times.