The argument that the death penalty is a deterrent is a complete falsehood.
It assumes that people who murdered were not deterred by the death penalty. Obviously this is counting the wrong group.
The group to count would be those that did not murder because they were fearful of the death penalty. In order to determine that one would need to poll everyone in a population daily to determine their desire to kill vs. fear of death penalty. In other words count those deterred vs undeterred and this is the correct statistic. Naturally, those who are against the death penalty do not want to count this way because it would undermine their argument.
The NSDAP did not ever have the majority of votes. The German political landscape was so fractured at the time that the NSDAP was the largest single party polled.
-Jon
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