1. Capital Punishment
... people think, when they should be based the facts and the truth. Statistics The following statistics were taken from a report called, An eye for an eye. The national death-row population in 1983 was 1,137. Two years before, the number was 200 less and half as many in 1979. Florida had 189 death-row inmates, Texas had 153, Georgia and California ... 118 each. A dozen teenagers, 13 women, and six soldiers were included in those numbers. Between 1960 and 1973, the homicide rate doubled, from 4.7 murders per 100,000 people to 9.4. By 1983, the rate leveled off at 9.8 per 100,000 (Kurt,1983)...
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