The death penalty is not a deterrent?

A piece on someone who escaped from a Canadian prison

Six days ago, Blane MacDougal, whose criminal record includes murder, escaping custody, indecent assault, rape, kidnapping and sexual assault with a weapon, slipped away from a minimum-security jail in the Fraser Valley.

He has vanished so thoroughly that police yesterday were left to appeal to the dangerous offender's "goodwill and conscience" to turn himself in.

The RCMP have dozens of officers searching for him, but say to date they have had no leads - not even the false sightings that typically come with such manhunts.

"At this time our appeal is directly to Mr. MacDougal himself, to do the right thing and turn himself [in]," said Inspector Pat Walsh, the head of the RCMP detachment in Mission, B.C., about 70 kilometres east of Vancouver.

Insp. Walsh said Mr. MacDougal is considered dangerous and could be anywhere.

"We're half an hour from the border, he could have gone into the U.S. Honestly, we don't know. There have been no sightings of him, which is unusual."

Comments....

I'm sure you can count on MacDougal to do the right thing. He's got a whole life time of "doing the right thing".

Let's assume that MacDougal came to the US to raise funds for Obamania, would Obamania say "The notion that . . . me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense,"

The Canadians have no death penalty. How are they going to explain this to the next family of the person this jack off rapes and/or kills.

I do know one thing, if Mr. MacDougal were executed he would be deterred from pulling this one off.