Monday, June 30, 2008

SCOTUS Misread Death Penalty Research

How the Supreme Court Misread My Research: Empirics and the Death Penalty. Apparently both sides got it wrong. "In short, the best reading of the accumulated data is that they do not establish a deterrent effect of the death penalty."

Scalia said deterrence was shown, it wasn't. Stevens needs to understand “the absence of evidence of deterrence should not be confused with evidence of absence.”

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