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Kevin Fischer is a veteran broadcaster, the recipient of over 150 major journalism awards from the Milwaukee Press Club, the Wisconsin Associated Press, the Northwest Broadcast News Association, the Wisconsin Bar Association, and others. He has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for over three decades. A longtime aide to state Senate Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature, Kevin can be seen offering his views on the news on the public affairs program, "InterCHANGE," on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10, and heard filling in on Newstalk 1130 WISN. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and their lovely baby daughter, Kyla Audrey, in Franklin.
Executing criminals saves lives
I am a staunch supporter of the death penalty. For many years, I’ve studied and researched this issue, and have done extensive balanced reporting on the controversial subject that garnered several journalism awards.My support grew even greater today with a front page story, in of all places, the New York Times:
According to roughly a dozen recent studies, executions save lives. For each inmate put to death, the studies say, 3 to 18 murders are prevented.
The studies, performed by economists in the past decade, compare the number of executions in different jurisdictions with homicide rates over time — while trying to eliminate the effects of crime rates, conviction rates and other factors — and say that murder rates tend to fall as executions rise.
“I personally am opposed to the death penalty,” said H. Naci Mocan, an economist at Louisiana State University and an author of a study finding that each execution saves five lives. “But my research shows that there is a deterrent effect.”
Here is the entire New York Times article.
The death penalty is a life saver. It’s time we put a stop to the interminable appeals that inmates on death row use to circumvent the system. We should execute more criminals whose acts are so vicious, so cruel, so heinous, that in the name of true justice, they forfeit their own lives.
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