A series of academic studies show that executing a murderer deters at least several other murders so the stupid opponents of the death penalty are actually supporting more homicide.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070611/...lty_deterrence
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There is no question about it," said Naci Mocan, an economics professor at the University of Colorado at Denver. "The conclusion is there is a deterrent effect."
A 2003 study he co-authored, and a 2006 study that re-examined the data, found that each execution results in five fewer homicides, and commuting a death sentence means five more homicides. "The results are robust, they don't really go away," he said. "I oppose the death penalty. But my results show that the death penalty (deters) — what am I going to do, hide them?"
Statistical studies like his are among a dozen papers since 2001 that [show] capital punishment has deterrent effects.
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People with common sense really don't need studies to tell them the obvious but with mass stupidity becoming the fad of the times it's good to have formal proof.
Now we have to start prosecuting all the moronic death penalty opponents as accessories to murder.