Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!saquigley From: saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: So How Do We Stop It Message-ID: <9134@watmath.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 21:11:37 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.9134 Posted: Mon Sep 24 21:11:37 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 06:17:16 EDT References: <434@astrovax.UUCP>, <353@hou2f.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 24 From S.GLAZER > Four years ago when I vacationed in the Caribbean Island of > Martinique, our guide boasted that Martinique had the lowest crime > rate in all of North and South America and that this was particularly > true for violent crimes. When asked to what he attributed this > desireable situation, he replied, "The guillotine man, we still use > the guillotine!". > hmmm, this makes me wonder. Martinique is a french department like any other and therefore the laws there are the same as in the rest of France. My understanding is that there haven't been executions in France for quite a few years. I don't know whether the death penalty still exists there or not. Does anybody have any reliable information on this? There is one thing I do know for sure though: If capital punishment still exists, it is only used in cases of first degree murder, so it would not explain why there is a lower incidence of violent crime in Martinique. Sophie Quigley ...!{clyde,ihnp4,decvax}!watmath!saquigley