Capital Punishment: For or against?

Punishment Schedules for Capital Flight

W HAT are appropriate penalties to discourage capital flight? Economic punishments can serve as effective deterrents for economic crimes but the penalties themselves are often costly to impose and enforce. Good public policy must take these costs into account in addition to the effectiveness of punishment schemes. In order to construct a deterrent to economically motivated behaviour, the enviro...

Euthanasia, Capital Punishment, Murder

Homicide and Capital Punishment

Does Capital Punishment Deter Murder?

Ethical, philosophical and religious values are central to the continuing controversy over capital punishment. Nevertheless, factual evidence can and should inform policy making. The evidence for capital punishment as an uniquely effective deterrent to murder is especially important, since deterrence is the only major pragmatic argument on the pro-death penalty side.1 The purpose of this paper ...

Invariant Subspaces and Capital Punishment (a Participatory Paper) Invariant Subspaces and Capital Punishment (a Participatory Paper)

abstract The notion of invariant subspaces is useful in a number of theoretical and practical applications. In this paper we give an elementary treatment of invariant subspaces that stresses their connection with simple eigenvalues and their eigenvectors.