Cassy Stubbs is a staff attorney with the ACLU Capital Punishment Project. Before the ACLU, Cassy worked as a New Mexico State public defender, as an employment attorney in Los Angeles, and for the New York Civil Liberties Union. She received her B.S, with honors from Brown University in 1995 and graduated magna cum laude from New York University School of Law in 2000.

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The Death Penalty Deterrence Myth: No Solid Evidence That Killing Stops The Killing

Posted June 18, 2007 | 12:43 PM (EST)


Among the many factors in the debate about the death penalty is whether capital punishment deters violent crime. Although solid research indicates that there is no valid evidence of such deterrence, recent attention has been given to a few flawed studies concluding that the death penalty does deter murder.

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