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I support the death penalty for several different reasons. Firstly, I believe that the death penalty helps reduce the amount of crime and serves as a deterrent. Criminals commit crimes for different reasons, some for personal beliefs, happiness or suffer from mental illnesses. The crimes of rape, torture, murder, kidnapping, and treason could potentially put a human on death row. If a human is sentenced to death, the crime rates will decrease significantly. In a study, “Professor Robert B. Ekelund of Auburn University and his colleagues analyzed the effect that executions have on single murder rates, while there was no effect on multiple murder rates”. (CITE) In another study, Professor Robert B. Ekelund did find that “capital punishment does,

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