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But Phillips said any study which uses monthly date, such as Northeastern's, would be "considerably blurred." He added, "It's really curious that they (Pierce and Bowers) examined the month after the execution,' instead of the month of the execution.
Pierce and William J. Bowers studied the effect of the 695 executions in New York between 1907 and 1963. They analyzed the effect of publicity about executions in a given month on the homicide rate during the following month.
The two studies are not necessarily contradictory because they examine the different cricumstances, Pierce said. "Whatever the effect of executions is, the one thing that's clear is it's not much," he said.
Pierce critized Phillips for labeling his results a "deterrent effect," rather than a delay. "Were he able to look at more than the initial decline, he would have found that it was followed by a larger increase, which is what we're seeing," Pierce said.
Each study is based on opposing views of how potential murderers react to executions. Pierce and Bowers found that "the publicity surrounding an execution, let alone witnessing one, may cause some pepole--perhaps those on the fringe of sanity--to become fascinated and obsessed with the condemned person's crime...