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Police Chiefs Scoff at Death Penalty

Loaded on Oct. 15, 1995 published in Prison Legal News October, 1995, page 6
Filed under: Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty. Location: United States of America.
A poll of randomly selected 386 police chiefs in the US found that most believed the death penalty does nothing to deter crime. The poll found that only one percent of the police chiefs believed the death penalty should be a primary focus to stop violent crime. Many of the ...

 

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