The death penelty is not a detterant. This year the New York Times did a survey that showed ten out of the twelve states that don't have the death penelty have homicide rates that are lower than the national average (6.3), and half of the states that do have the death penelty are above the national average. The survey also showed that during the last twenty years, the homicide rate in the states with the death penelty have been 48% - 101% higher than than in the states without the death penelty. Further more in 1994, the death row population nationwide exceeded thr

-Larry Fitzgerald, spokesman for Texas Department of Criminal Justice, to the Dallas Observer, July 29, 2000

The people of America are concerned about getting rid of programs that are high in cost, one of the most costley is the death penelty. Florida spends 3.2 million on each death row inmate, as apposed to five hundred and thirty-five thousand on an average of forty years in prison for a life sentence. "Every cost study undertaken has found that it is far more expensive, because of legal safeguards, to carry out the death penelty than it is to jail a killer for life." If only one out of every twenty people sentenced to death are excecuted, just think if those other nineteen were sentenced to life than it would save millions of dollers. Considering that there are criminals that have been on death row for over twenty years they might as well have been sentenced for life and saved

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