[Vision2020] Study says Death Penalty IS a Deterent

[nickgier at adelphia.net]

Greetings:

I've been following the debate on the new research showing a deterrent effect for the death penalty.  For each of these articles there have been, I believe, successful rebuttals and rejoinders.

See for example the exchange in the "Economist's Voice" (April, 2004) at www.bepress.com/ev.  It will take a goodly number of overwhelmingly convincing studies to overturn 176 years of research showing that the death penalty does not deter.

Nick Gier, low wattage radio commentator, Cabo Crier, and intellectual mutant