# Nidal Hassan sentenced to death.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nidal-hassan-sentenced-to-death/667458>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 29, 2013, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nidal-hassan-sentenced-to-death/667458 "2013-08-29T00:21:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 30, 2013, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nidal-hassan-sentenced-to-death/667458/41 "2013-08-30T21:26:44Z")

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> [@handsomeharry](#):
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> Well, let’s do exactly what the rest of the ‘developed world’ does, by all means!

er…yes, give it a go. A different approach might help your crime figures.

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> We’re not Beaver and Larry Mondello who have to go along with the gang.

I’m from the UK so the reference is lost on me.

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> And, a higher incarceration rate is immaterial, in and of itself. Maybe you chaps need to up your numbers.

Right…you have 5% of the world’s population and 25% of the worlds _prison_ population, your crime stats when compared to other first-world countries are nothing to write home about in most cases and dreadful in others. The incarceration rate would be immaterial if there was proof that it was working but…does it?

Unfortunately it appears we’d need to increase our prison population by a factor of 5 to get up to you guys and we can’t build prisons that fast. Anyway. Our murder rate is far lower than yours as it is and crime overall is falling so we seem to be doing something right.

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