Tennessee Claflin Quotes
Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals.
Cook, Tennessee Claflin. Essays on Social Topics. The Roxburghe Press, 1898.
The panel addressed this fact because the implications for law enforcement, criminal justice and civil liberties are profound. Is an artificial intelligence system that is right most of the time allowable to determine the guilt or innocence of an individual "beyond a reasonable doubt?" Can a computer calculation be sufficient to establish probable cause to get a warrant for a search or seizure?
He was one of the longest serving District Attorneys in America, He also served the largest jurisdiction of a District Attorney. When he first was elected DA of Manhattan there were over 600 murders a year. When he retired, there were only about 60, a 90% reduction. Yet, his experience was that capital punishment was useless in deterring murder. He had many other techniques far more effective.
This has been the case in EVERY jurisdiction that has had capital punishment. Capital punishment does provide vengeance for victims, relatives and society. And in many societies execution is less expensive than prison for life. But it has never curtailed crime despite the example. In London, they used to have public executions as examples to inhibit crime. While the crowd was watching a pickpocket be hung, other pickpockets were relieving many spectators of their wallets and watches.
Lady Tennessee Celeste Claflin, Viscountess of Montserrat, also known as Tennie C., was an American suffragist best known as the first woman, along with her sister Victoria Woodhull, to open a Wall Street brokerage firm, which occurred in 1870.
