The DEATH PENALTY: Homicide Rates Since Abolition:

Did you ever hear an "EXPERT" tell you that capital punishment didn't work because ..

"DETERRENTS DON'T WORK" ..  crooks & nutters don't think about getting caught and punished when they are on the job" ?

- Now it is not easy to tease-out the truth of the matter - because the way these crimes are recorded and defined have changed - for example a double-murder used to be one crime but currently it might be recorded as two offences.

- And what would have been a 'murder' back then could now be classed as 'manslaughter' or accidental death. Plus - as I remember it - anyone taking part in a criminal act when a death resulted used to be charged with murder even if someone else caused the fatality .. say in a robbery.

But the figures for UK DO CLEARLY INDICATE HOMICIDE DEATH RATES HAVE DOUBLED SINCE THE DEATH PENALTY WAS ABOLISHED.

https://fullfact.org/news/has-murder-rate-doubled-hanging-was-abolished/

And here in New Zealand the figures have been messed with too - particularly with the introduction of a truly rubbish police computer system - but you can extract a picture if you persist ..

The last person hanged in NZ was in 1957 - and the Death Penalty for 'murder' was abolished in 1961.

 The NZ figures 
Annual murder rate per million people (WITH the Death Penalty)
1926-1970: 6 

_____________________Death Penalty ABOLISHED IN 1961.
1985-1992: 21 
1994-1998: 15 
1999-2003: 14 
2004-2008: 12

Not being an "expert" I would claim that the NZ Murder rate has increased by a factor of two to three times since 'abolition'.

Note: - those figures come from an article from 2009 that is headed "NEW ZEALAND MURDER RATES HALVED IN PAST 20 YEARS" ... You judge whether that is a truthful story.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10565563

There is no question but that anyone wrongly convicted and executed has grounds for serious complaint - but that would be another failure of our law enforcement and Courts system - not of Justice.

I know that the death penalty is not nice .. but neither is violent murder.

- It has also been affirmed that the death penalty is the ONLY criminal sentence that has a ZERO recidivism rate .. (recidivism is "falling back & offending again"  - It comes from the Latin word recidivus, which means "recurring.")(I had to look-up the word for the spelling eh).

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