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July 03, 2008

Down and out on Death Row

Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics.

In the article Education and the Fairness of Capital Punishment Sandberg writes about a small neural network study that has shown that it is possible to predict who on death row who will be executed based on non-crime factors, such as education. Yet another problem for the supporters of capital punishment and more evidence that education (or a high g) pays off.

Posted by Waldemar at July 3, 2008 03:45 PM