If I didn’t manage to convince you of the stupidity of deterrent talk in my two previous posts (here and here), then neither will I manage today. Still, I’m a hopeless optimist by nature, so I’ll try anyway. A vital presupposition in the deterrence argument in favor of capital punishment (or any type of punishment […]
Some more data to support the claims expressed in this post, and this one. There’s a paper here presenting the results of a survey among leading criminologists regarding their opinion on the deterrent effect of capital punishment in the U.S. The findings demonstrate an overwhelming consensus among these criminologists that the empirical research conducted on the […]
Proponents of the death penalty usually show the following famous graph in order to “prove” that capital punishment results in fewer homicides in the U.S., and is therefore a successful deterrent: First of all, there’s something wrong with this graph. It’s intentionally tweaked so as to highlight the recent rise in the number of executions, […]
You are here: Home > Blog Series > Capital Punishment Most of the different daily posts that appear on this blog are organized into so-called “blog series”. For example, there’s a series called capital punishment. (subscribe to the RSS feed for this series only) Capital Punishment (1) Capital Punishment (2): Homosexuals in Iran Capital Punishment (3): Machinery of Death Capital Punishment (4): Albert Camus Capital […]
