The United States' religious population is also made up with some more Eastern religions. ... The associations are The American Society of Criminology, The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and The Law and Society Association. ... Department of Justice, in 1999, states that had the death penalty had murder rates on the average of 5.5 per 100,000, and the average was 3.6 per 100,000 in the states that did not have the death penalty (Bureau of Justice Statistics, n.d.). Opponents of capital punishment would say that the statistics show that the death penalty does not act as any more ...

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Indeed, trends in Australia from 1965 to 1985 demonstrate an increasing number of homicide cases being reported to the police, but since the figures are rising more slowly than the population, the homicide rate has actually fallen over this period, from nearly six per hundred thousand to less than 4.4. The relevant data, incorporating murder statistics between 1973 and 1984 are set out in the figures blow. (Source: Wallace, Alison (1986), Homicide: The Social Reality, New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Sydney, 93) The most common justification for the death penal...

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The United States' religious population is also made up with some more Eastern religions. ... The associations are The American Society of Criminology, The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and The Law and Society Association. ... Department of Justice, in 1999, states that had the death penalty had murder rates on the average of 5.5 per 100,000, and the average was 3.6 per 100,000 in the states that did not have the death penalty (Bureau of Justice Statistics, n.d.). Opponents of capital punishment would say that the statistics show that the death penalty does not act as any more ...

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This scenario that happened in Illinois really changes the way that America thinks about capital punishment. ... One can also look to other countries to find statistics that back up the argument that the death penalty has no effect on capital crimes being committed or not. ... One of the main foundations the American justice system is built on is fairness. ... "Of the 3,856 prisoners executed under civil authority in the United States during 1930-1965, 53.6 percent were blacks, yet during that time period, they accounted for less than 12 percent of the population. ...

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The nation's death-row population now numbers more than 3, 335 inmates. Capital punishment, or the death penalty, has again become a basic fact of American criminal justice. ... Over the past five years, 48 % of those people whose cases were submitted to the Justice Department for review were African American, 29 % Latino and 20 % white. ... "The entire criminal-justice system is rife with racism, and this is nowhere more evident than in the administration of the death penalty," said Diann Rust-Tierney, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Capital Punishment Project. ...

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These statistics clearly show that other forms of punishment are successful in the deterrence of crime and capital punishment is not needed. ... Note that the population greatly increased throughout this time period. ...

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