Word: deterrenceã
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...Professor of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania—explained in an article for The Daily Pennsylvanian: “There’s no evidence that the death penalty does anything to reduce homicides.” Linked to this flawed belief in ‘deterrence?? is the common perception that putting a criminal to death is less costly than lifetime imprisonment. Again, this notion is unsubstantiated: The death penalty is more burdensome for the state. For example, in California, it costs an average of $90,000 more per inmate to confine an inmate...
Schaefer said the three reasons to support capital punishment are “incapacitation,” “deterrence?? and “retribution...
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