The author Rebecca Dresser is both a professor and an expert in biomedical ethics. She works at the Washington University School of Medicine teaching the legality of many biomedical issues. In the past she was the President’s council of Bioethics, worked at the U.S. District Court for the Western District Wisconsin, and had a fellowship in the Psychiatry Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The essay began stating that in 2013 Missouri was unable to execute a murderer due to the morality of using propofol. A brief history was the. Given on when lethal injections began back in the 1980s. A court case was mention …show more content…
In 1997 he received the Criminologist of the Year Award. He won the Paul Tappan Award in 2006 for outstanding contributions to the Field of Criminology. He also won the Steven M. Goldstein Criminal Justice Award in 2000. In the section titled “How Does Deterrence Work? He first starts off stating whether or not deterrence works better with the death penalty, or life a long prison sentence. This question is being asked because Texas offered life without parole to those eligible, instead of being put to death. In the time period that occurred he stated that there was no correlation because homicide rates and the temporary removal of the death penalty. He insists that a murderer isn't thinking about the death penalty while they are murdering someone, because someone of a stable mindset wouldn't do such a horrific crime in the first place. He then argues that the only time murder would be deterred is when people get in bar fights, or other unplanned deaths. Which he then justifies aren't common at all, and don't always result in a first degree murder sentence. He concludes with stating that having the death penalty in place as a deterrence of murder is a ludicrous idea. I will be able to use this source within writing project 3 because it will help support the argument for the death penalty. This writing will also argue against the idea of the death penalty being a means of deterrence in committing murder. There is also no bias because you can't combat data on homicides not lowering when the death penalty was implemented. “We expect that some of the would-be Texas murderers who think about sanctions would recognize this new law and take their friend or loved one to New Mexico to kill them, thus risking “only” LWOP. Obviously, this idea is absurd. Murderers tend not to think ahead, especially those who kill friends or