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21 July 2008

"I personally am opposed..."

"...to the death penalty,” said H. Naci Mocan, an economist at Louisiana State University and an author of a study finding that each execution saves five lives.

“But my research shows that there is a deterrent effect.”

According to roughly a dozen recent studies, executions save lives. For each inmate put to death, the studies say, 3 to 18 murders are prevented.
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