Following through on copious rhetoric from Trump on the campaign trail, the Jan. 20 order aims to overturn Supreme Court precedents limiting capital punishment, increase its use in federal cases ...

As CNN describes, “Forensic DNA testing from trash outside the Kohberger family home gave Idaho law enforcement the probable ...

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The president said he would seek capital punishment sentences for "all crimes of a severity demanding its use”. Con: not a deterrent "Study after study shows that the death penalty does not ...

Deterrence. Capital punishment is often justified with the argument that by executing convicted murderers, we will deter would-be murderers from killing people. The arguments against deterrence.

A search of your newspaper's website shows 70 entries over more than five years about Gov. Jeff Landry’s quest to reactivate capital punishment. Once again, he is invoking some contractual ...

In arguing that capital punishment has no deterrent value, its opponents usually appeal to statistics. Often cited is the 1953 report of the British Royal Commission on Capital Punishment, ...

Capital punishment is not a deterrent to “heinous crimes.” A study by the Death Penalty Policy Project found that since the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, ...

Capital punishment has long been used in the U.S. as “the ultimate deterrent and only proper punishment for the vilest crimes ...

More information: Hugh Farrell et al, Homicide, punishment and deterrence in Australia, Southern Economic Journal (2025). DOI: 10.1002/soej.12771 Provided by University of Limerick ...

The change reflects growing recognition within the Vietnamese legislative system that capital punishment is not a ...