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Now that executions are once again a normal part of American life--someone is executed in the United States once a week, on average--they, too, reliably bring on that clausural feeling.
He said executions in Saudi Arabia have increased threefold this year: "At least 91 people--including three women--have been publicly beheaded in 1999, including foreign nationals from Pakistan, Nigeria, Afghanistan, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Syria, Jordan, Chad, Ethiopia and Yemen.
The unspeakable crime took place in the state that leads the nation in executions.
Under pressure from the poorer classes, who did not want the Revolution appropriated for the exclusive benefit of the bourgeoisie, the Jacobin-led revolutionary committee ordered sweeping measures of economic and social reform, which were accompanied by a wave of mass executions, the Terror, aimed at moderates as well as aristocrats.
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.