Entries by Greta Maras

Deterrence is one of the most com­mon­ly expressed rea­sons for use of the death penal­ty, both as a con­sti­tu­tion­al jus­ti­fi­ca­tion and as a pub­lic pol­i­cy ratio­nale. Elected offi­cials have recent­ly called the death penal­ty an​“essen­tial” deter­rent to crime. The argu­ment goes that if some­one knows they could face the death penal­ty, they will not com­mit the crime. Following that rea­son­ing would sug­gest that states with the death penal­ty are safer than states without…

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