Capital Punishment
Date Submitted: 05/29/2003 21:11:24
Category: / Law & Government / Civil Rights
Length: 7 pages (1986 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Civil Rights
Length: 7 pages (1986 words)
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 …
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