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Uses and abuses of empirical evidence in the death penalty debate

Donohue, John J. (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2006

Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature, testing...