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The argument that the death penalty is superior to long imprisonment in its deterrent effect receives its strongest support from a study conducted by Issac Ehrlich. According to Ehrlich, each execution between 1933 and 1967 prevented approximately eight homicides (Radelet 7).

However, political scientist Walter Berns supports the death penalty not because it is a deterrent, but because he believes the function of punish

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