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deterrent effect of capital punishment
1.086 documents for deterrent effect of capital punishment
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The debate over the death penalty isn't likely to go away in Connecticut. The state's attorney in Bridgeport said this month he will seek the death penalty if Christopher DiMeo is convicted of shooting to death two people in their Fairfield jewelry store in 2005. DiMeo is already serving a life sentence for the 2004 murder of a Long Island jeweler. The state now has eight inmates on death row.
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... over its merits and over its effectiveness as a deterrent to serious crime. A sentence of dea...
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... was engaged in the commission of other capital felonies, viz., the armed robberies of the victims... Georgia statute as "cruel and unusual" punishment under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. That s...It held, in effect, that it is "cruel and unusual" to impose any puni... the worth of the death penalty as a deterrent to crimes by potential offenders have occasioned a...
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...Punishment, then, will be an art of effects.. . Michel Foucau...93) . 1. Introduction . Study of the deterrent effect of capital punishment has become a staple o...
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... because of the fear of sanctions or punishment. While not the entire premise, deterrence is certa... while we can say that there likely is a deterrent effect to the workings of the criminal justice sys... research on the deterrent effect of capital punishment on homicide rates. See THORSTEN SELLIN,...
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... social science about its efficacy as a deterrent. Sociologist Thorsten Sellin's careful comparisons... doubts about the existence of a deterrent effect caused by the imposition of the death penalty. (1)... contributed to the waning reliance on capital punishment, and executions virtually ceased in the...
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... . Lethal injection is used for capital punishment by the Federal Government and 36 States... administered to achieve its intended effect- resulting in severe pain when the other chemicals... it, irrespective of whether it is a deterrent or not.' " See Gregg, 428 U. S., at 184, n. 30. Ou...
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... a sentence is "cruel or unusual punishment" and thus unconstitutional. In the capital context...It first looked to the retributive effect of executing the retarded. (168) Justice Stevens d...(173) . Next, the Court examined the deterrent effect of executing the mentally retarded. It bega...
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...325, 329]. guilty, guilty without capital punishment, guilty of manslaughter, or not guilty.... of first-degree murder - is without any effect.[Footnote 6]. [Page 428 U.S. 325, 333]. found tha...[Footnote 7] The debate over the general deterrent effect of the death penalty and the relevant mater...
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...Threshold Effects (?) and Regional Variation B. International Variat...(6) They contend that the deterrent effect of capital punishment is significant and th...
