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We Need Crime Prevention


            
             For most crimes committed in the United States a fine, .
             sentence of time in jail or execution is the punishment. However, the .
             death penalty is the most questionable punishment. Is it morally .
             right? Is it effective in deterring crime, primarily murders? Weather .
             or not you agree if it is moral or not, one issue remains. The death .
             penalty is not an effective way to prevent crime. .
             The death penalty has existed as long as humans have .
             existed. The quote "an eye for an eye" is found in the Bible. In the .
             middle ages fines, public humiliation and imprisonment were .
             appropriate punishments for all crimes, and death penalty for all .
             murders. .
             .
             In the United States alone there have been 4047 executions .
             since 1930, and 188 were from 1977-1996. The death penalty is an .
             expensive punishment, since 1976 the united states have spent 700 .
             million dollars in it. Methods of the death penalty include lethal .
             injection, gas chamber, electric chair, hanging and fire squad. In a .
             1986 poll 70% of Americans favored the death penalty as a punishment .
             for murder. .
             .
             There have been many comparisons of crime rates of death .
             penalty states to non- death penalty states. These clearly show that .
             the death penalty has no effect on the rate of crime. .
             Clearly this shows that the presence of the death penalty has no .
             effect on the increase or decrease of crime rates. Even with the .
             death penalty, crime rates continue to rise and fall in the United .
             States. Crimes will be committed weather or not death .
             penalty is a method of punishment. .
             .
             Many people believe that the death penalty isn't an .


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