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New Hampshire Commission Hears Deterrence Testimony

By Steve Hall

"On death penalty, researchers differ with the police," is the title of Annmarie Timmins' report in the Saturday edition of the Concord Monitor. There may be reasons for New Hampshire to keep the death penalty, but statistics show deterrence shouldn't be one of them, a criminologist testified yesterday before a legislative group weighing the future of capital punishment here. "Our research doesn't mean that punishing homicide offenders is a bad idea," said Tom Kovandzic of the University of Texas. "What we are saying is that increasing punishment by having the death penalty doesn't decrease the number of homicides." Another statistician from Dartmouth College agreed. Police officers, however, did not...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 12, 2010 (boomark / email).