07-03-2018, 04:57 PM
(07-03-2018, 04:44 PM)michaelsean Wrote: How do we know the death penalty isn't a deterrent? How do you determine how many people haven't murdered because they didn't want the death penalty? It seems to be an accepted conclusion, but I've never understood how they've determined this.
Studies showed that when the death penalty ban was overturned by the SC in 1972 the Sates that re-instated the death penalty did not see any greater reduction in murders than the states where it remained banned.
Murder rates have been consistently lower in states with no death penalty than in states with a death penalty.
