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“It is hard to tell if capital punishment has such an effect. And even if, in some contexts it has (such as in the American South with a very high incidence of murder), this effect may very well go away if a decent welfare state was replaced for the existing social order.”

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Torbjorn Tannsjo, born in 1946, is an individual whose profession and category are unknown. more

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