Chris, one of the most interesting reports I read was a couple of years back, where they showed that in most major Canadian cities, the police deal with people on parole or early release more often than any other group. People who should have been behind bars instead of out of the streets (except for those manditory early release deals, double credits for time served waiting to go to court, etc) end up costing the police huge amounts of time and money.
Keeping these people in jail would almost certainly lead to lower crime rates, as there would be less of them on the streets to do the crimes.
The death penalty removes violent people from society, so nobody else has to risk being killed or injured by them. Manditory full sentences leads to less criminals on the streets.
Society created the concept of "jail" and "punishment" for a reason. Going soft on it just leads to people getting away with murder.
Alex
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