Does facing the death penalty make would-be killers rethink their actions? The question has long been at the center of arguments for and against the death penalty, but a committee formed by the ...

Capital punishments serve as an example in front of the criminals, who plan to commit such abominable crimes and directly prevents them from doing so especially, when public humiliation is involved.

In his Jan. 1 commentary, “The Death Penalty: A 1% Nonsolution to Crime,” Jeff Gillenkirk uses the usual “no deterrence” argument and points out that “no study has ever quantified a link ...

The question for companies isn’t whether the enforcement landscape has changed—it has. The real question is whether they’re ...

Some philosophers and legal theorists deny that either retribution or deterrence is a justifiable ground for punishment. If that's your view, I'm not going to suggest you make an exception for Trump.

With respect to marginal deterrence, consider for example the case in California of Jesse James Hollywood. (Yes, that is his real name.) ... In the absence of capital punishment, ...

Deterrence has always been a crucial element in ensuring one’s security. In classic international relations literature, punishment and denial are described as drivers of effective deterrence. Yet, the ...

A search of your newspaper's website shows 70 entries over more than five years about Gov. Jeff Landry’s quest to reactivate capital punishment. Once again, he is invoking some contractual ...

Principles of deterrence inspired by game theory—a mathematical model used to predict the actions of hostile actors—governed the delicate dance between the U.S. and Soviet Union during the ...