One argument is the deterrence of crime. Defenders of the death penalty insist that since taking an offender's life is more severe punishment than any prison term, it must be a deterrent. They feel that it will make criminals think twice about committing a crime. On the other hand abolitionist argue that adjacent states, in which one has the death

penalty and the other does not, show no long term differences in the number of murders that occur in that state. States that use the death penalty seem to have a larger number of homicides than that of states that don't use the death penalty. States that have abolished and than reinstated the death penalty have not showed any significant changes in crime. Abolitionists also believe the capital punishment is barbaric. Some people say it is barbaric to take someone's life through electric chairs, or gas chambers. Retentionists argue that they now have lethal injection where the person doesn't feel any pain.

Abolitionists believe that capital punishment is subject to miscarriage of justice and it would be impossible to administer it fairly. They state that innocent people are killed even though they did not commit the crime. The survey found between 1900 and 1985 they found that 7000 people were executed and 35 were innocent of capital crimes. The argument against Innocent people being killed. Are that many innocent people getting killed during thei

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