Under a new law, "three strikes and you are out," in New York, criminals that commit three serious offenses are then jailed with no chance of parole. Now imagine, there is a man robbing you with a gun. He has already had two serious offenses and knows that if he gets caught he will be in jail for life. He then has two choices: (1.) he can take your money and run, knowing your testimony will give him life in prison; or

The murder rate lessened in the 1950's to less than ten a year. Soon after this, the opposing views of the death penalty set in. The execution rate continued to steadily decline. In 1972 the Supreme Court outlawed all remaining capital punishment laws in Furman vs. Georgia, with the exception of those with enough evidence to prove that the death penalty was appropriate. This evidence proves that while the death penalty was enforced, murder rates remained low. However, after Furman vs. Georgia the chance of execution was slim to none and the murder rates are outrageous and in the 1980's, California's Supreme Court overthrew thirty- seven of forty death sentences (Tucker 2).

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