The impact of the death penalty and executions on state-level murder rates: 1980-2011

Mark Gius

Applied Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 23, issue 3, 199-201

Abstract: The purpose of the present study is to determine the effect of capital punishment on state-level murder rates. Using a large current data-set and a two-stage fixed effects model, results of the present study suggest that states with death penalties and at least one execution in a given year had 28% lower murder rates than other states. These results hold regardless of the functional form used.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2015.1064074

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