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People that have committed extremely loathsome crimes such as murder have been punished by means of the death penalty. It is a practice of age-old standing, but in the United States it has become a very controversial issue. Changing views on this difficult topic ....

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.... deserves the death penalty and it was his own fault for putting himself on death row. While committing the crime, the criminal had no intentions of being caught, and knew that what he was doing was wrong. There is not enough evidence to prove whether capital punishment deters crime. However, a study by W. Bailey of the period from 1967-68 showed a deterrent effect in twenty-seven states. A later study by him showed a deterrent effect in twenty-five states. During the interval on capital punishment in the United States, murder increased by one hundred percent. A review of the fourteen nations who abolished the death penalty showed that the murde ....