if death penalty states abolished the penalty, would the murder late increase?

Question

Non death penalty states have lower murder late than death penalty country. However, if death penalty states abolished the penalty, would the murder late increase? Are the states already high murder states exept for the penalty?

Sorce :http://www.cbsnews.com/news/death-penalty-decisions-loom-for-obama/

Answer 1

No. Homicide rates for states that use the death penalty are consistently higher than for those that don’t. The most recent FBI data confirms this. For people without a conscience, fear of being caught is the best deterrent.

Answer 2

Net murders would rise. Gross rates may go up, down or stay the same.



The death penalty deters, meaning that there will be fewer net murders with the death penalty and more without it.



Read section (2) first:



OF COURSE THE DEATH PENALTY DETERS: A review of the debate

and

MURDERERS MUCH PREFER LIFE OVER EXECUTION

99.7% of murderers tell us "Give me life, not execution"

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/03/of-course-death-penalty-deters.html



(1) Some factual evidence for specific cases of individual deterrence.





a) Opinion: People v Love

http://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/people-v-love-24307



starting right after that which is in bold, below, which is about 1/4 down from the top and goes to the end.



Be patient.

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Gibson, C. J., Peters, J., White, J., and Dooling, J., concurred.







McCOMB, J.

I dissent.

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b) One Iowa prisoner, who escaped from a transportation van, with a number of other prisoners, stated that he made sure that the overpowered guards were not harmed, because of his fear of the death penalty in Texas. The prisoners were being transported through Texas, on their way to New Mexico, when the escape occurred. Most compelling is that he was a twice convicted murderer from a non death penalty state, Iowa. In addition, he was under the false impression that Texas had the death penalty for rape and, as a result, also protected the woman guard from assault. "Langley says Texas death penalty affected his actions during escape", by Stephen Martin, The Daily Democrat (Ft. Madison, Iowa), 1/8/97, pg 1.





c) New York Law School Professor Robert Blecker recorded his interview with a convicted murderer. The murderer robbed and killed drug dealers in Washington DC., where he was conscious that there was no death penalty. He specifically did not murder a drug dealer in Virginia because, and only because, he envisioned himself strapped in the electric chair, which he had personally seen many times while imprisoned in Virginia. pending book, [e-mail]



d) Senator Dianne Feinstein explained, ''I remember well in the 1960s when I was sentencing a woman convicted of robbery in the first degree and I remember looking at her commitment sheet and I saw that she carried a weapon that was unloaded into a grocery store robbery. I asked her the question: ‘Why was your gun unloaded?’ She said to me: ‘So I would not panic, kill somebody, and get the death penalty.’ That was firsthand testimony directly to me that the death penalty in place in California in the sixties was in fact a deterrent.''California District Attorneys Association, ''Prosecutors Perspective on California’s Death Penalty,'' March 2003



e) a number of additional examples from









B. THE INCAPACITATION AND THE DETERRENT EFFECTS, from DEATH PENALTY AND SENTENCING INFORMATION In the United States, Dudley Sharp, 10/1/97

http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/dp.html#B.Deterrence







2) a) "DEATH PENALTY DETERRENCE CLARIFIED"

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2012/12/death-penalty-deterrence-clarified.html





b) DETERRENCE, THE DEATH PENALTY & MURDER RATES

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2012/12/deterrence-death-penalty-murder-rates.html





c) "Death Penalty, Deterrence & Murder Rates: Let's be clear"

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2009/03/death-penalty-deterrence-murder-rates.html



3) "Death penalty and deterrence -- the argument from anecdote", Eric Zorn, Change of Subject page, Chicago Tribune,4/23/2011,

http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2011/04/deter.html



4) "An Abolitionist's Survey of the Death Penalty in America Today", Hugo Adam Bedau, Chapter 2, within Debating the death penalty: should America have capital punishment? : the experts on both sides make their case, editors Hugo Adam Bedau, Paul G. Cassell, Oxford University Press, 2004. SHARP REVIEW: AN EXCELLENT BOOK PRESENTING BOTH SIDES.



5) LIFE: MUCH PREFERRED OVER EXECUTION:

99.7% of murderers tells us "Give me life, not execution"

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2012/11/life-much-preferred-over-execution.html





6) a) See sections C and D within

The Death Penalty: Saving More Innocent Lives

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2012/03/death-penalty-saving-more-innocent.html



b) Brutalization & The Death Penalty: More Support for the Deterrent Effect

http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/02/brutalization-death-penalty-more.html

Answer 3

No. Murderers aren't afraid of death or anything that would happen to them. They're dangerous because they feel they have nothing left to lose.It's why crime is so high in poverty stricken areas and families with broken homes.