First of all, we’ve all pretty much established the laws around the world and know what types of things we like to call crimes and everything we know to be legal and illegal. So, knowing this, we sentence our criminals justly or accordingly. We know that if you speed, you get a speeding ticket or, if you commit robbery you go to jail, etc. and so on . . . so, what happens if you commit murder? Does the court system have the authority commit murder on you? Is that just? ‘An eye for an eye’? Where’s the logic in putting someone to death, when they themselves committed a crime of murder. We are trying to say that by killing someone is very bad, and should be dealt with, but how

82% of all executions since 1976; the Northeast accounts for less than 1%. Authors John Sorenson, Robert Wrinkle, Victoria Brewer, and James Marquart examined executions in Texas between 1984 and 1997. They speculated that if a deterrent effect were to exist, it would be found in Texas because of the high number of death sentences and executions within the state. Using patterns in executions across the study period and the relatively steady rate of murders in Texas, the authors found no evidence of a deterrent effect. The study concluded that the number of executions was unrelated to murder rates in general. The abolition of the death penalty in Canada in 1976 has not led to increased homicide rates. Statistics in Canada report that the number of homicides in Canada in 2001 (554) was 23% lower than the number of homicides in 1975 (721), the year before the death penalty was abolished. In addition, homicide rates in Canada are generally three times lower than homicide rates in the U.S., which uses the death penalty. For example, according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, the homicide rate in the U.S. in 1999 was 5.7 per 100,000 population and the rate in Canada was only 1.8. Canada currently sentences those convicted of murder to life sentences with parole eligibility. The latest FBI Uniform Crime Report shows that in 2000, the national murder rate decreased 3.1% from 1999, with the smallest decline in the South. The South remains the region with the highest murder rate, 6.8 victims per 100,000, compared to 5.1 in the West and Midwest, and 4.0 in the Northeast. (Crime in the U.S. 2000, FBI Uniform Crime Reports, October 2001) Since the death penalty was reinstated, over 80% of all executions have occurred in the South, the region with the highest murder rate. The Northeast, the region with the lowest murder rate, has accounted for less than 1% of the executions. All this information makes no sense. Statistics say

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