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"The media is a bit Johnny-come-lately in recognizing all the research that has been done on the death penalty over the last decade, with nine of the 12 referenced academic studies by economists finding that the death penalty saves lives." - John Lott

 

•  Criminal Justice Legal Foundation list of deterrence abstracts and articles
  • Joanna M. Shepherd, Clemson University
    Murders of Passion, Execution Delays, and the Deterrence of Capital Punishment
    Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 283-322 (June 2004)
    http://people.clemson.edu/~jshephe/DPpaper_fin.pdf
     
  • Paul R. Zimmerman
    State Executions, Deterrence and the Incidence of Murder
    Journal of Applied Economics, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 163-193 (May 2004)
    http://www.cema.edu.ar/publicaciones/download/volumen7/zimmerman.pdf
     
  • Zhiqiang Liu
    Capital Punishment and the Deterrence Hypothesis: Some New Insights and Empirical Evidence
    Eastern Economic Journal, vol. 30, iss. 2, p. 237 (Spring 2004)
    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=352681
     
  • H. Naci Mocan & R. Kaj Gittings
    Getting Off Death Row: Commuted Sentences and the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment
    Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 453-478 (October 2003)
    http://econ.cudenver.edu/mocan/papers/GettingOffDeathRow.pdf
     
  • Hashem Dezhbakhsh, Paul H. Rubin, & Joanna M. Shepherd
    Department of Economics, Emory University
    Does Capital Punishment Have a Deterrent Effect? New Evidence from Postmoratorium Panel Data
    American Law & Economics Review, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 344-376 (Fall 2003)
    http://www.cjlf.org/deathpenalty/DezRubShepDeterFinal.pdf
     
  • James A. Yunker, Western Illinois University
    http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/issue.asp?ref=0038-4941&vid=82&iid=2&oc=&s=&site=1
    A New Statistical Analysis of Capital Punishment Incorporating U.S. Postmoratorium Data
    Social Science Quarterly, vol. 82, no. 2, pp. 297-311 (2002)
     
  • Dale O. Cloninger & Roberto Marchesini
    University of Houston --Clear Lake
    Execution and Deterrence: A Quasicontrolled Group Experiment
    Applied Economics, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 569-576 (2001)
    http://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/applec/v33y2001i5p569-76.html
     
•  The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment
•  Capital Punishment and the Deterrence of Crime