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Well, your absolute guarantee is wrong. I have thought about quite a lot, and come down on the side of being pro-death penalty.

The spectacle of an execution should help, but what it seems to help is the illusion that justice prevails. But most of us who live and attempt to understand the world around us realize that it is likely justice doesn't prevail in all cases, and that a substantial number of murderers aren't caught. We want to think they are caught, they aren't. And then we convict innocent people.

The murder clearance rate in the US is around 60%. So 40% aren't cleared. In the Philippines less than 20% are cleared, so more than 80% aren't solved or cleared. We do make nice TV shows about murder though.

We like our illusions.

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