s to what they can do until they have learnt it themselves. In the past 60 years there have been three ways test to try and prove that capital punishment is a form of deterrence. The first way is, immediate impact studies, which calculate the effect a well-publicized execution has on the short-term murder rate. Second, time series analysis, which compares long-term trends in murder and capital punishments rates. Finally, contiguous state analysis, which compares murder rates in states that have the death penalty with the states that has abolished capital punishment (Senna p.362). Using these three methods over a 60-year period, most researchers have failed to show any deterrent effect of capital punishment(Senna p362). Although, All the evidence taken together makes it hard to be confident that capital punishment deters more than long term prison terms do(Cavanaugh p33). To take this even one step farther, the executive director of the Montgomery based Equal Justice Initiative, Bryan Stevenson said, People are increasingly realizing that the more we resort to killing as a legitimate response to our frustration and anger with violence, the more violent our society becomes We could execute all three thousand people on death row, and most people would not feel any safer tomorrow (Frame p51). There the are twelve states that dont have the death penalty which are Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Washington DC. In 1997 these states murder rates were no higher then the other 38 states in the United States (Whittier p.78). While the death penalty prevent convicted murders from committing others crimes, the death penalty does not stop other from doing so. Executions merely reinforce the idea of a brutality society where moral vengeance is an accepted for of behavior. In the past we did away with many types of capital punishmen...
