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Originally Posted by J pold
Clearly this isn’t the case, From the article: Indeed, 10 of the 12 states without capital punishment have homicide rates below the national average, FBI data shows, while half the states with the death penalty have homicide rates above the national average. A state-by-state analysis found that during the last 20 years, the homicide rate in states with the death penalty has been 48 percent to 101 percent higher than in states without the death penalty.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/092200-01.htm
I’m re-posting hit article, it was brought up earlier on in the thread
Also wouldn’t sending someone too life in prison drastically reduce there ability to re-commit a capital offence?
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Originally Posted by J pold
Also wouldn’t sending someone too life in prison drastically reduce there ability to re-commit a capital offence?
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Drastically? Perhaps a tad. Other than a murder in the prison, escape or early parol, which are all very realistic situations for murderers.
Second of all, it's hardly valid statistics to compare different states in different punishment environments. Living standards, crime rates in general, weapons per capita ratio are all variables that are significant to such a comparison. The only true way of comparing the impact of caplital punishment (I won't use the acronym for obvious reasons) is by comparing murder rates directly before and directly after (maybe a time span of a few years) it's introduction/termination in the same area.