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= = Pro Capital Punishment **//Capital Punishment should not be abolished //** Gale Resource Center In this article by David B. Muhlhausen he gives his viewpoint on why capital punishment should not be abolished. He argues that capital punishment should not be discontinued because it prevents crimes, saves lives, and how the majority of American citizens support its use. He gives the following information below to back up his support for capital punishment. From 2000 to the most recent poll in 2006, support for capital punishment consistently runs a 2:1 ratio in favor. Using a panel data set of over 3,000 counties from 1977 to 1996, Professors Hashem Dezhbakhsh, Paul R. Rubin, and Joanna M. Shepherd of Emory University found that each execution, on average, results in 18 fewer murders. These are just a few of his examples as there continues to be may more to back up his support for capital punishment.

Morally Defensible? This article starts out with the famous quote, "We kill people to show people that killing people is wrong", and it continues on to explain the missing important points of the slogan. It then says how this quote is better stated as "We execute people to show people that murder is wrong." In this article it also argues how the death penalty is moral and just. That murders are not innocent people fighting for their lives, only the victims are. It gives the most common reasons why the death penalty is supported and the objections to each and every one.

Gale Resource Center This article tells us all about how capital punishment is just and how the murder of the innocent is undeserved. The articles gives examples of how two innocent teenage girls were killed unjustly. It explains how the death penalty is the most secure form of incapacitation. It talks about the attacks against capital punishment and the "error" rate against it.

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Death penalty supporters say that punishment prevents murderers from killing again and discourages other people from ever killing. They point to the example of Kenneth McDuff, who was sentenced to death for two murders in 1966. When the Supreme Court temporarily got rid of the death penalty in Furman in 1972, McDuff's sentence was reduced to life in prison. After being released on parole in 1989, McDuff raped, tortured, and murdered at least nine women before being caught again in 1992.
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 Death penalty opponents argue that capital punishment does not stop criminals from committing murder. They point to studies that show that the murder rate in states without the death penalty is half the murder rate of states with capital punishment. For death penalty opponents, this is evidence that capital punishment increases violence in society by setting a bad example. ( Wenzel)

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