There are 38 states that have some form of capital punishment including: New York, Texas, and Utah. All three of these states have, experianced substantial drops in the rate of murders in their respective states. The argument that the death penalty is a non-effective punishment is not quite as sound as anti-death penalty supporters think it is. January 17, 1977, a man by the name of Gary Gilmore faced the firing squad at the Utah State prison. After that execution there were 44 murders in 1977 a 20% decrease from the year before. An entire decade later a very violent killer was

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