Bunuel wrote:
To be sure, the death penalty would not directly deter those crimes of which the public stands most to fear - burglary, robbery, assault, rape. No serious proposal would make these into capital offenses. Yet even a symbolic blow against our current plague of crime would have its value. The reinstitution of the death penalty would represent the determination of society to take an unequivocal stand against all forms of crime. Crime rates, even for noncapital offenses,
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