tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post2138134446550233520..comments2024-03-27T13:13:25.164-04:00Comments on johnshaplin: 'Closure' by Hans-Georg Moellerjohnshaplinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post-67875699642488768462010-07-20T13:19:37.343-04:002010-07-20T13:19:37.343-04:00Prior to 1900, lynching was more common than offic...Prior to 1900, lynching was more common than official execution as the predominant mode of the death penalty in the United States, claiming more lives over the course of American history than legal capital punishment. Of 3,224 Americans lynched between 1889 and 1918, 702 were white and 2,522 were black. During the same period, 1,080 convicted defendants were officially put to death under state authority, of which slightly fewer than half were white. Of course it is impossible to say how many of the legal convictions and executions were not, in fact, simply legal lynchings.johnshaplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post-51113673777247689542010-07-18T09:27:24.520-04:002010-07-18T09:27:24.520-04:00The death penalty does not act as a deterrent and,...The death penalty does not act as a deterrent and, under a legal system framed by the Bill of Rights, saves no expense.<br /><br />The Moral Fool; A Case for Amorality by Hans-Georg Moeller; Columbia University Press, N.Y. , 2009johnshaplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.com