The death penalty affects only a tiny percentage of even those who commit murder. Its effect is very difficult to pinpoint, and the National Academy of Sciences has concluded that past studies have neither proven nor disproven a deterrent effect."
I would suggest that, even with my absolute moral objections put to one side, that any evidence would have to overwhelmgly show a deterrent effect if the death penalty were to be reconsidered.
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