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Dunban67 said:

you must not have read my original post in this thread-  i said the death penalty as it is currently administered is not much of a deterent but it does give prosecutors bargaining leverage

I also said public hanging would be a deterent which is not what the study/survey you cited is talking about - it is talking about The death penalty- as it is administered now

Incorrect assumption is incorrect.  I absolutely did read your initial message.  I simply disagree with it, for previously stated reasons (such as my belief that some wrong-in-the-head people might find the public notoriety of a public hanging to be appealing, rather than a deterrent).