Deterrence is not flawed logic. It very well could have influenced your hell thread earlier in that the perpetrators thought their may be consequences for their actions. Right now, they know if they get caught, not much will happen to them. If the threat of the chair exists, maybe they would have changed their minds.
And you wonder why we have crimes like this today in society. All the positive crap the phych guys dish out is garbage.
-S
PS. The thought of death is a much worse thing in my mind than worry about sitting in jail for the rest of my life. No one can ever tell me any different. Its a natural instinct to want to do everything possible to avoid it. I can can guarantee that they think the same way.
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