June 19, 2009

New Study Says Capital Punishment Not A Deterrent

A recently published study by criminologists at Colorado-Boulder assert that executions do not produce lower homicide rates, as they shed light on the myth of capital punishment as a deterrent to crime.

The findings demonstrate an overwhelming consensus among these criminologists that the empirical research conducted on the deterrence question supports the conclusion that the death penalty does not add deterrent effects to those already achieved by long imprisonment.
Download the study here (.pdf)

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