From whizkid's writeup: "has anyone noticed that crimes in countries with the death penalty are getting more and more violent as time passes by, has anyone wondered why"
The implicit assumption here is that a person is reincarnated to the same country they die in. Does this make sense? Do political borders matter in the afterlife (or rather, between-lives)? Does geography matter to spirits (assuming they even have a choice in whether or where they are reborn)? daani points out that a reincarnated human's soul need not be reborn into a human, and indeed, it rarely is. Countries with death penalties should therefore also watch out for murderous mice, psychopathic squirrels, and the like…