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Experts Say Death Penalty Doesn't Deter Murder

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There's more coverage today of the Radelet & Lacock deterrence study.  That is the headline of an AFP report via Google News.  LINKThe death penalty fails to deter crime or lower murder rates, according to an overwhelming majority of top criminologists questioned for a US university study published this week.Just over 88 percent of 79 experts from the American Society of Criminology said they did not think the death penalty "acts as a deterrent," researchers at Chicago's Northwestern University said in a statement.In the study based on a similar 1996 report, the criminologists were asked for responses based on "their understanding of the empirical research," and not their personal opinion of the effects of capital punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 18, 2009 (boomark / email).