1.0 link 80324 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-holdridge-and-cassandra-stubbs/debunking-the-death-penal_b_80324.html Imagine the moments leading up to a murder. Are we to believe a person about to commit a homicide would consider whether or not his state has a death penalty as opposed to just life imprisonment without the possibility of release? Common sense suggests that lucid, rational calculations about capital punishment statutes are not among the things that would cross the mind of a would-be murderer. Yet as illogical as it sounds, new reports are asking us to accept this...

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