how do murder statistics in the us with death pen compere to other western countries without the death penalty
155423
No difference.  Death penalty has limited deterrence because it takes so long for the actual execution.
381451
Hmmm...compare the rate of crime in death penalty states as opposed to non-dp states.\nCompare the success of children who are adopted vs. 'natural' children\nCompare the art of Dali to the art of Pollack\nCompare the fruit exports of Bora Bora to the exports of Honduras\nCompare companies that test on animals vs those that don't\ncompare a vegan lifestyle w/that of a omnivore\ncompare tv households vs non-tv households\nHope this gives you a starting point. Good luck! :)
115726
“ ... The fruit of my experience has this bitter after-taste; that I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out has in any way acted against a deterrent against future murder. Capital punishmnet, in my view, achieved nothing except revenge... “ \n\n  ( Albert Pierrepoint, British hangman until his resignation in 1956, from his biography, Executioner Pierrepoint. )\n\n\nPlease find below related informative websites.\n\n\nAustralian Coalition Against Death Penalty\nFacts and Fallacies, Questions and Answers, Methods of Execution, Lethal Injection: The Naked Truth, Australia and Capital Punishmnet, History of Death Penalty\nhttp://acadp.com/\n\nAmnesty International \nCountry reports, facts, statistics\nhttp://web.amnesty.org/pages/deathpenalt...\n\nWorld Coalition Against Death Penalty\nCreated in Roma in May 2002, the Coalition gathers NGOs, Bar associations, unions, local governements, all kind of organizations who are attached to the struggle against death penalty and want to coordonate their efforts of lobbying and action in an international level\nhttp://www.worldcoalition.org \n\nDeath Penalty Information Center\nArticles, reports and statistics about death penalty worldwide.\nhttp://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org\n\nClark County Prosecuting Attorney\nLinks to over 1,000 death penalty related web sites\nhttp://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/link...
13803
No, it does not make us a better nation ,but, if properly utilized it may create a safer nation! In reality we do not utilize capital punishment as very few convicted criminals are ever sentenced to death, and even, when sentenced to death, automatic appeals prevent the timely execution of criminals.  Therefore, capital punishment is not a deterrent.  How strange that people rally to prevent the execution of murderers but demand the right to continue killing more unborn babies. Here in the US we have "legally" sacrificed more babies, numerically, than the individuals exterminated by the Nazi regime of Adolph Hitler. Yet we dare to call ourselves a moral, civilized nation. If we decide to give capital crime offenders life imprisonment without the possibility of parole maybe we should at least require that life be given to inutero individuals, unless the life of the mother is at risk.
833907
The states that have abolished the death penalty are Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.\n\nhttp://www.legislationline.org/?tid=144&jid=55&less=false
1180119
I think the most positive effect of the death penalty here in America is that it really pisses off all those pinko commie bleeding heart Europeans.\n\nI think that's more than enough of a reason to keep it around.
68751
The death penalty has existed in America since Europeans first settled here and has already been on the books since, at least at the federal level. The Supreme Court found the way capital cases were sentenced was unconstitutional, and thus between 1973 and 1976, the death penalty laws were unenforced. In 1977, the Supreme Court found a revised method of sentencing to pass muster, and thus they were allowed to resume, but there was no law passed, per se, that made it resume.
389213
There are no known cases inside the US since the Death Penalty was reintroduced in 1976.
354630
Rate. It means how many percent of the population get murdered, not the number of ppl who got murdered in a country! so USA is a stupid answer. and I don't know the answer.
330704
Here is a website on which states still have the death penalty and the method used.\n\nLethal Injection\n \nAlabama \nArizona\nArkansas\nCalifornia \nColorado\nConnecticut\nDelaware \nFlorida\nGeorgia \nIdaho\nIllinois\nIndiana\nKansas\n Kentucky\nLouisiana\nMaryland\nMississippi\nMissouri\nMontana\nNevada\nNew Hampshire\nNew Jersey\nNew Mexico\nNew York\nNorth Carolina\nOhio\n Oklahoma \nOregon\nPennsylvania\nSouth Carolina \nSouth Dakota\nTennessee \nTexas\nUtah \nVirginia \nWashington \nWyoming\nFederal Government\n       \nElectrocution Lethal Gas Firing Squad \nAlabama \nArkansas \nFlorida \nIllinois\nKentucky \nNebraska\nOklahoma \nSouth Carolina \nTennessee \nVirginia \n Arizona \nCalifornia \nMissouri \nWyoming \n Idaho \nOklahoma \nUtah \n\nHanging\nDelaware\nNew Hampshire\nWashington \n \n      \n \nAlabama - If execution is after 07-01-02, inmate may choose electrocution, otherwise lethal injection. Arizona - If committed before 11-23-92, inmate shall elect lethal injection or lethal gas. If no election made, then lethal injection. California - Inmate may elect lethal injection or lethal gas. If no election, then Lethal Injection. If one method invalid, then the other method. Delaware - Lethal Injection. If lethal injection held unconstitutional, then hanging. Florida - Lethal injection unless inmate elects electrocution. If lethal injection or electrocution held unconstitutional, then any legal method. Georgia - If committed after May 1, 2000 lethal injection. If before, electrocution. If electrocution held unconstitutional, then lethal injection. In 2001, Georgia Supreme Court held electrocution, as prescribed by statute for murders before 1999, unconstitutional.Idaho - Lethal injection. If impractical due to lack of “technical assistance,” then firing squad. Illinois - Lethal Injection. If lethal injection held unconstitutional, then electrocution. Kentucky - Lethal injection, unless inmate was sentenced before 03-31-98 and chooses electrocution. Missouri - Lethal injection or lethal gas. (Unknown who decides) New Hampshire - Lethal Injection. If “impractical, then hanging. Ohio - Lethal Injection - If lethal injection held unconstitutional, then any subsequently prescribed legal method. Oklahoma - If lethal injection held unconstitutional, then electrocution. If electrocution held unconstitutional, then firing squad. South Carolina - Lethal injection, unless inmate elects electrocution. If Lethal Injection held unconstitutional, then electrocution. Tennessee - On or after 01-01-99, then lethal injection. Before 01-01-99, then electrocution, unless inmate elects lethal injection. If lethal injection or electrocution,l then any constitutional method. Utah - Lethal injection. If court holds that defendant has right to firing squad choice under prior law, then firing squad. If lethal injection held unconstitutional, then firing squad. Virginia - Lethal injection or electrocution chosen by inmate. If no choice made, then Lethal Injection. Washington - Lethal injection, unless inmate elects hanging. Wyoming - If lethal injection held unconstitutional, then lethal gas. Federal Government - Lethal Injection is general method pursuant to 28 CFR, Part 26. However, under the Violent Crime Control Act of 1994, the method is that of state in which the conviction took place, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 3596.
564596
Each State has its own guidelines for capital punishment.\n\nBut for the Federal guidelines- there are many- some of which are not murder - although most of them are circumstances that require a death result (such as kidnapping where a death results; attack on an airline where a death results) but there are some like treason, or related to drug kingpins, etc.\n\nHere is a link- it's pretty dense- but it's all there:\n\nhttp://www.usembassy.it/pdf/other/RL30962.pdf
240893
Yes.\n\nThe death penalty is not about getting even.  It's about controlling criminal intent.  Once criminals see that you are easy on violent crime, crimes will multiply.\n\nStates that have and enforce the death penalty have far fewer violent crimes.  Criminals there are afraid of the consequences of murder.  That's good for all of us.
412022
Age old question.  An eye for an eye.  It's the final way we have as a society of saying to those who commit murder that we will not tolerate the behaviour.  Unfortunately, jail and the death penalty do not seem to be a deterrent to those who commit the crimes - otherwise we'd have empty prisons and no such thing as death row.
233185
Not a lot: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=230&scid=24
176547
you really need to be more specific, in the US, In the UK, in Europe, on earth, and are we talking motor vehicle deaths, fights, drunk driver manslaughters, all of the above. If you are specific with your question and the parameters, we can help you more.
824193
Most countries have the laws you mention; they will vary from one country to another. Unfortunately as in the west there are differences over what is just. For example in parts of the US it's seen as acceptable to execute teenagers with learning difficulties in other parts of the US and in Europe this is seen as barbaric.\nAnother issue is that people break the law; again this happens all over the world. \nOn top of that you have the people in control who have a vested interest in preventing change; again this applies to the the west as well as the east.
1014529
Absolutely.  There are only certain crimes that carry the death penalty and there are a number of reviews that take place before an execution takes place.  Once the person has been found guilty and the reviews have taken place, the punishment fits the crime.