Capital Punishment / Essays / Law / ID: 744782

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ID number:744782

Author: Anonymous author (7)

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Published: 02.04.2004.

Language: English

Level: Secondary school

Literature: n/a

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Why Capital Punishment Should be Abolished
Unlike popular belief, the death penalty does not act as a deterrent to criminals. As stated by Alfred Blumstein, "Expert after expert and study after study has shown the lack of correlation between the treat of the death penalty and the occurrence of violent crimes." (Blumstein 68) Isaac Ehrlich's study on the limiting effects of capital punishment in America reveals this to the public. The study spans twenty-five years, from 1957 till 1982, and shows that in the first year the study was conducted, there were 8060 murders and 6 executions. Howeve…

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