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Executions don't deter murder, despite the Trump administration's push

  • Written by David P. Barash, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Washington
Executions don't deter murder, despite the Trump administration's pushThe federal death chamber at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, as seen in April 1995.AP Photo/Chuck Robinson

Three more federal inmates are slated to be executed before the end of President Donald Trump’s term, though the first received a stay hours before she was slated to die on Jan. 12. Ten have already been put to death since...

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