To: Egregious Philbin
No correlation has been found between the presence of capital punishment and reduced murder rates. Executed murderers have a 0% murder-rate. A relevant statistical comparison would be between the murder-rate of people who have committed at least one murder and the murder-rate of the rest of the population.
To: Aquinasfan
No correlation has been found between the presence of capital punishment and reduced murder rates.
Executed murderers have a 0% murder-rate. A relevant statistical comparison would be between the murder-rate of people who have committed at least one murder and the murder-rate of the rest of the population.
Wow, this thread grew! What I meant was that "the presence of capital punishment" has not been proven to be a deterrent to commiting murder.
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