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Well we have laws and plenty of dangerous people who belong in these prisons. Another thing to consider is other countries will execute their prisoners over d
by chrshawkes 9y ago
Well we have laws and plenty of dangerous people who belong in these prisons. Another thing to consider is other countries will execute their prisoners over drug dealing where we put them in prison. There is also the fact that we are the third most populated country and a melting pot combined with plenty of terrible neighborhoods of all ethnicity's.
- tdb7893 9y agoEuropean countries are often similarly diverse and don't have the same prison population. Also, when you are talking about numbers in percents of population the amount of executions to make a real difference in population would be staggering and border on genocide, which, outside of a few exceptions, isn't the case.
- lazerpants 9y agoActually, European countries are not nearly as diverse as the USA with the exception of the UK. The best analysis I can find on the subject is [1]. I disagree with the point I think chrshawkes is making but the diversity claim is valid. 1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_ethnic_and_cultural_diversity_level#List_based_on_Alesina_et_al.27s_analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_et...
- sgift 9y ago> Another thing to consider is other countries will execute their prisoners over drug dealing where we put them in prison. You can almost always find someone doing something even more horrific. That's a pretty low bar, which is usually not seen as sufficient.