The Death Penalty

The pair conducted their study using statistical data gathered from the Uniform Crime Report’s Supplementary Homicide Report for the years 2000 through 2007, and they chose their cities to gather data from by using United States Census Bureau

The implementation of stricter firearm control laws has greatly benefited many lives through its relation to homicide rates. It is observed that the rates of homicides by means of firearms are

In this article it states what all methods are used for the death penalty. In Eight states it allows electrocution (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia). Three states it allows the gas chamber (Arizona, Missouri, and Wyoming). Three other states allow hanging (Delaware, New Hampshire, and Washington). Two other states allow the firing squad (Oklahoma and Utah), though only Oklahoma is the one that uses it. Utah allowed that option before it was banned in 2004.

On the other hand, in 2012, the highest murder rate in the United States was in Louisiana, while the lowest murder rate was in New Hampshire. It seems that New Hampshire should have capital punishment, due to its low rate and the effectiveness of deterrence. According to the example of Texas and Wisconsin, the state that practices death penalty should have higher murder rate, or in this case Louisiana. On the other hand, the research done by the DPIC, the average murder rates of Death Penalty States in the United States from 2008 to 2012 have always been higher than the states without capital punishment. However, both Louisiana and New Hampshire practiced capital punishment, while their murder rates are extremely apart. The conditions in the United States reveal that there is no direct proportion between whether being a capital punishment state, and the crime rates. In addition, the

After this era, the support for death penalty began to slowly decline, as 42% of people showed support for the death penalty in the 1950s (Bohm,1999).

The United States of America has one of the highest rates of Homicide in the developed world, though most people tend to agree that Russia’s homicide rate are higher, the question remains as to why. The following essay will look at three different perspectives of the same American phenomenon of high homicide rates. All three pieces state that homicide rates are uniquely high in the United States, this is in stark contrast to other like developed nations such as France, Germany, and The United Kingdom. America’s homicide rates are unquestionably high, but the reason they are so high in this country is a matter of speculation and debate. This paper will highlight the similarities and differences on the issue homicide rates within this country.

“In 1994, there were 23,326 murders in the United States; by 2013, that number had fallen to 14,196, an incredible 39-percent decline. More specifically, according to the Department of Justice, the number of firearm-related homicides declined from 18,253 in 1993 to 11,101 in 2011. The Department of Justice further concludes that even non-fatal gun-related crimes are declining, dropping 69 percent between 1993 and

Cost: The cost incurred with the death penalty sentence vs. the cost of life in prison

The U.S. is one of the few major industrialized nations to permit capital punishment. However, this statement must be made with a caveat: the United States permits capital punishment but leaves it up to the states to decide whether the death penalty is acceptable. Since the death penalty is currently not considered 'cruel and unusual' punishment according to the U.S. Supreme Court, it is within the rights of individual states to make decisions about its application. "The U.S. now houses three sorts of jurisdictions: states without the death penalty by law ('abolitionist states'), states with the death penalty but insignificant numbers of executions ('symbolic states'), and states with both the death penalty in law and in practice states actively carrying out executions ('executing states')" (Steiker & Steiker 2006:1).

One clear anomaly to this international trend of decline is the United States (U.S.) as capital punishment flourishes there. Due to this unique fluctuation in pattern, The United States of America has been chosen as the country of focus for this dissertation.

“Death penalty retentionists now admit that as long as we use the death penalty, innocent defendants will occasionally be executed” (Radelet & Borg, 2000, page 6). This is

The death penalty is imposed to provide justice as well as deter homicide and bring down the crime rate. However, evidence and research cannot provide any consensus which agrees that the crime rate goes down, or it increases with the imposition or non-imposition of the death penalty (D. Vergano, 2012). Therefore in order to determine the correctness of the gathered research, a study will be dedicated to finding out whether the death penalty deters homicide or not. The relation between the death penalty and the homicide rate is found on several variables and surveys which are analyzed, and data from these are qualitatively and quantitatively collected to form an informed opinion. Using both the forms will put an in-depth analysis to work as

Topic: The Death Penalty (Against) Purpose: To show people the cons of the Death Penalty and to convince them to take action against it. Thesis Statement: (See item “C.”) I. Introduction (Attention Step) A. “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.

In contrast, the question of deterrence can be answered objectively using common sense and statistics. By analyzing different arguments for and against the death penalty, such as the "fear of death" myth, the cost of the death penalty, and the racial and economic bias of the death penalty, it can be shown that the death penalty is not an effective deterrent of crime.

Out of most crimes in the U.S handguns were utilized the most often in homicides. Most cases in the late 1980’s and early 90's before declining to a low in 2007. Criminal activity is what most actively committed crimes with firearms was to blame, increasing crime rates in a few cities above 50%. The percentage of victims killed with a firearm