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The paper says the cabal keeps its hold with public floggings and executions (the story describes a burglar's raucous public hand amputation), intensive street patrols and networks of informants.
Second, economic theory predicts that some incentives matter more than others, and the data confirm the theory: Executions prevent murders, but convictions prevent even more murders.
The bottom line, according to Feklisov, is that the executions were unjust.
Plotting with or against their statesman, courting the populace, negotiating treaties, or ordering executions, those formidable rulers never failed to appear ostentatiously clad in vast padded and jewel-encrusted dresses, their torsos boxed in whalebone, their hair glued into smooth rolls upholding pearls and plumes.
The WP reports that according to Justice Department statistics, the 74 executions carried out thus far this year in the United States represent the highest number in any one year since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976 and the most in four decades.