Il n’est pas possible, bien entendu, de le prouver empiriquement, mais si nous assumons la vérité du syllogisme qui veut qu’une condamnation plus sévère est plus dissuasive, cela signifie que la peine la plus sévère dissuade davantage et que la peine de mort a le plus fort pouvoir de dissuasion.
It is not possible, of course, to prove this empirically, but if we assume the truth of the syllogism that a more serious punishment is a stronger deterrent, this means that the most severe punishment deters more, and this means that the death sentence deters most of all.