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This 6 page paper discusses some of the issues being debated with regard to the death penalty. It does not take a position in support or in opposition to capital punishment. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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unusual punishment. This paper examines arguments on both sides of the issue but does not take a stand. Discussion A note about the research: these five articles are all from
an academic database. While there are a great many pieces available on the Internet, these are mostly emotional rants on one side of the issue or the other, and not
of any use, except to see how irrational people can become when discussing pet causes. It does serve to indicate the level of interest in the topic, however. The first
article, "Does the Death Penalty Deter?", notes that this may be the single strongest argument in favor of capital punishment. If it can be shown that carrying out executions reduces
the murder rate, its difficult to argue against it ("Does the Death Penalty Deter?"). Studies done over the years appear to show that executing convicted murderers "does deter future murders"
("Does the Death Penalty Deter?"). But in 2006, two respected professors, John J. Donohue from Yale Law and Justin Wolfers of the Wharton Business School reanalyzed the data from the
most prominent study used to argue in favor of capital punishment, and found it did not in fact support the idea that the death penalty has a deterrent effect ("Does
the Death Penalty Deter?"). Several studies argued in favor of the deterrent because it appeared that when the death penalty was in use, the homicide rate declined ("Does the Death
Penalty Deter?"). However, Wolfers and Donohue argue that the methodology of the earlier studies was faulty, and the researchers used a "simple pairing" technique: i.e., if the death penalty was
lifted, the homicide rate went up, therefore, it must be a direct relationship. They argue that misreading the statistics is at fault here, since there are other cases in which
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