Again, if those who committed murder were at least put on death row[...]
"At least"? What greater/further action is there, assuming that they're there waiting for an execution date?
[...]the 8.3% of them wouldn't have murdered again[.]
There's that epistemic error again. You're expressing an opinion. If you're holding that out to be a "fact," then you'd best ask yourself, "How is this hypothesis falsifiable?"
This by definition is deterrence. No, wait, it goes beyond deterrence to elimination.
"Elimination" certainly goes beyond "deterrence." No argument there.
But elimination is not, except through a most strenuous euphemistic and semantic massage, equivalent to deterrence.
Of course, in the absence of evidence - and still unable (or unwilling) to come up with "flaws" in my earlier post - it is just that type of contrivance that's what's required.
This is but one way to measure the deterrent effect of the DP. There are other ways, some statistical, some empirical, some anecdotal, that have been covered over the past few days.
As previously mentioned, there isn't any evidence, quantitative or qualititative, that the other side doesn't have similar data counteracting. Furthermore, any statistical and empirical evidence was pretty roundly trounced in this post...
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...unless you care to, again, point out the "flaws" you spoke of?
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