Capital Punisment

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

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,

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