et and gives them the chance to kill again. Dawud Mu'Min who was serving a 48-year sentence for the 1973 murder of a cab driver when he escaped a road work gang and stabbed to death a storekeeper named Gadys Nopwasky in a 1988 robbery that netted $4.00. This could have all be prevented if he was executed. Abolitionists claim that the death penalty is not an effective deterrent when it comes to crime. (Schwarzchild, 655) They say that the states with the death penalty have a higher rate of crime. The problem with this is that every state is different, each state has a different ethnic groups that make up the population, different numbers of population and other such differences including crime rates. It is excepted if a state has a high crime rate that there will be more murders and other such crimes that the death penalty can be used for. So it is unfair to say that states with the death penalty in use has a higher crime rates. As Edward Koch once said: "It is by exacting the highest penalty for the taking of human life that we affirm the highest value of human life."(Koch, 652) This was backed by award-winning Chicago journalist Mike Royko when he said: "When I think of the thousands of inhabitants of Death Rows in the hundreds of prisons in this country...My reaction is: What's taking us so long? Let's get that electrical current flowing. Drop those pellets [of poison gas] now! Whenever I argue this with friends who have opposite views, they say that I don't have enough regard for the most marvelous of miracles - human life. Just the opposite: It's because I have so much regard for human life that I favor capital punishment. Murder is the most terrible crime there is. Anything less than the death penalty is an insult to the victim and society. It says..that we don't value the victim's life enough to punish the killer fully." The justice system was not intended to be morally correct which would be impossible to do...
