Capital Punishment is an affective way to deter murders.
change as well as parole boards, and people often forget the past. Those .
things can cause life imprisonment to fade away. No matter how small the .
chance, there is always a chance the murderer will strike again as long as .
he's still alive (Lowe 1-6).
In England, Germany and France, a man knows that if he has .
committed a murder, every person will be his enemy, and make sure that he .
will get at least life in prison, if not the death penalty (Moore 19).
In a Utah State Prison, Gary Gilmore faced a firing squad. In the state of Utah there had been 55 murders during 1976. After his death in 1977, there were 44 murders, that is a 20 percent decrease (Lowe 1-6).
Back in the 1920's and 1930's at least 120 murderers were executed every year in the U.S., sometimes the number was as high as 200. England used and still uses the death penalty more frequently then we do. At the time, their overall murder rate was smaller than any of our major cities. England has abolished capital punishment about 30 years ago and the murder rate has doubled then and 75 English citizens have been murdered by released killers. Now, in New York State, the death penalty is in effect and the murder rate is continually dropping (Lowe 1-6).
In Florida on Friday, January 7th, 2000, lawmakers passed a bill, aimed at cutting in half the number of years that inmates can spend appealing death sentences. "Lawmakers said the bill should cut the time between death sentences and executions from an average of more than 10 years to five years". Under this bill the inmates on death row will be limited, in most cases, to two appeals in state court. The second appeal must be filed within six months of the first. The current process gives killers one year after their first appeal is rejected (Newsday A14).
A long line of researchers have found that the death penalty is more likely to be given to blacks than to whites, and to poor defendants than to well-off ones, even if they are equally guilty of murders.
