Word: lammis
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...shed much light; there's no deterrence value in executing a zealot (true believers, after all, want to die for the cause). But deterrence is always murky; there's no proof capital punishment discourages crime by anyone other than the criminals who get executed. Death-penalty proponent Glenn Lammi, chief counsel of the legal-studies division of the Washington Legal Foundation, admits that "there are no convincing studies" tracking the relationship between the death penalty and the crime rate, because isolating one variable in a sea of factors (poverty, gun availability, alcohol use, policing techniques) is beyond our abilities...
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