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22 May 2009, 3:33 pm
Lawmakers opposing repeal measures in legislatures across the country this year often expressed their belief that the death penalty is a deterrent.Cass Sunstein and Justin Wolfers were quite clear in their OpEd,"The Murky Evidence for and Against Deterrence," that appeared in the June 30, 2008 issue of the Washington Post, and noted here.In short, the best reading of the accumulated data is that they do not establish a deterrent effect of the death penalty.That… [read post]
18 Jun 2007, 5:58 am
Jeffrey Fagan, a professor at Columbia Law School and an expert on statistics, testified to Congress that the Emory and Denver studies were "fraught with numerous technical and conceptual errors," and "fail[ed] to reach the demanding standards of social science. [read post]
6 Apr 2007, 7:19 am
Acts, Omissions, and Life-Life Tradeoffs Carol Steiker, No, Capital Punishment is Not Morally Required: Deterrence, Deontology, and the Death Penalty John Donohue & Justin Wolfers, Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate Cass Sunstein & Adrian Vermeule, Deterring Murder: A Reply Jeffrey Fagan, Death and Deterrence Redux: Science, Law, and Causal Reasoning on Capital Punishment Eric D. [read post]
25 Sep 2008, 6:07 pm
(University of Chicago)Edlin Aaron (UC Berkeley)Eichenbaum Martin (Northwestern University)Ely Jeffrey (Northwestern University)Eraslan Hülya K. [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 10:09 pm
The new generation of feuding parties includes Hashem Dezhbakhsh and Paul Rubin, who argue that their work confirms the deterrence effects of the death penalty, and Justin Wolfers (who was the discussant!) [read post]
