The Capital Punishment System
In one survey, University of Emroy Professors Hashem Dezhbakhsh, Paul H. Rubin, and Joanna M. Shepherd used a panel set of data from 1977 through 1996 from over 3,000 counties across the country. It was concluded that for every execution there are on average at least 17 fewer capital crimes committed. On two similar platforms, waits on death row have been shortened by on average three years and one less murder was committed on average, and it was also concluded that executions conducted by electrocution are the most effective at deterring crime rates. Capital punishment does in fact save lives, each additional execution does in fact deter between three and eighteen