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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by slv77 on Monday September 19, 2016 @08:26AM (#12530829)
I thought that there there was consensus amomg statitians that the death penalty has a deterrent effect and each execution saves between 3 and 18 lives:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/us/18deter.html

While there was still people who were challenging the studies the statisticians had moved on because it was considered a settled question.

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Re:What I Learned from Executing Two Men by majewsky on Monday September 19, 2016 @09:40AM (#12531332)
Interesting. I've only ever seen studies suggesting that the death penalty has no deterrent effect whatsoever (when compared to penal systems without death penalty).
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