According to FBI statistics, the murder rate in some states which use the
death penalty is twice that of some states which do not use the death
penalty. Even researchers who set out to prove that police officers have
greater protection in jurisdictions permitting executions uncovered no
deterrent value in the death penalty. Between 1976 and 1985, almost twice as
many law enforcement officers were killed in death penalty states as were
killed in states that do not execute.
The widely respected Thorsten Sellin studies, conducted in the United States
during 1962, 1967 and 1980, concluded that the death penalty has no
deterrent effect. The British Royal Commission on Capital Punishment
analysed statistics from seven European and three non-European countries,
reporting that no evidence linked abolition of the death penalty to
increased homicide rates...
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Gilchrist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Just realized I forgot the original argument for the death penalty, that
it's a deterrent.
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