squads and hangings are used in other countries. The newest methods now used more often throughout the world include hangings, electrocution, gas chamber, firing squad (in Utah), or lethal injection. Caning is not a form of capital punishment, although an alternate way to lower crime rates. In Singapore, where caning is practiced regularly, crime rates are so low that they are barely above zero, (Capital Punishment).Supporters argue that death is a more severe punishment so it deters crime. The principles of capital punishment say it is a form of retribution, and that the murderer deserves to die. Death is pure humiliation for the criminal, and it has been proven that humiliation is one of the best forms of punishment, (Capital Punishment, 282). Executions occur usually a decade or more after a murderer is sentenced to ensure that due process of law can take place and if the man is innocent, he can hopefully be proven so.Studies done by government agencies in the 1970s have proven that for each man put to death, 8 or more murderers are deterred from committing crimes (Arguments for Life and Death). Life sentences cost $1.8 million to carry out. Death sentences only have the costs of ten years or more in prison and prosecution costs. This proves that death is more cost effective then life and it deters more crime. Also there is the indisputable fact the murderer who is executed cannot murder again. And in North Carolina, if every murderer was put to death for 1st and 2nd degree murder charges, over forty-five murders could have been stopped due to repeat murders after a criminal got out of prison. According to Honeyman and Ogloff, Five executions have occurred in Utah since 1977. In the year following each execution, the crime rates dropped very significantly, (198). It is a known fact that 2nd degree murderers only have a ten to fifteen year sentence and most often only serve part of the sentence. The only difference bet...
