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Does death penalty deter crime? Especially murder The highest sentence awardable to an accused is death or capital punishment. A great deal of discretion has been given to the courts in granting the death penalty and it is not awarded except in particularly serious situations where cold-blooded, pre-planned or inhuman murders have been committed. Assumption is the only fact that we consider when we make the statement that capital punishment is a deterrent. However, in reality an assumption is not a fact. There is no evidence that capital punishment is a deterrent. We assume that the fear of receiving punishment or justice will deter murder. Unfortunately, people commit crimes from passion or they do not think or care about the consequences. With or without capital punishment people will still commit crimes. The death penalty does not have conclusive evidence to be a tool in the criminal justice system to deter people from committing crime. One of the great examples of capital punishment does not deter crime. In US 28 out of 50 states practice death penalty for murder. A number of studies have shown that states with the death penalty generally experience higher homicide rates than states without it. For example, Amnesty International found that the murder rate in non-death penalty states has remained consistently lower than the rate in states with the death penalty. The New York Times have reported similar findings. They found that the 83% of US states without the death penalty had homicide rates below the national average. The Guardian reported that “It’s also very hard to square a belief in the “deterrence effect” with the fact that in the US, for example, death penaltyusing states such as Texas have significantly higher homicide rates than states where the death penalty has been abolished”. Along with 110 nations that have banned capital punishment, European non-death penalty nation’s data shows that the United States has more than three times the homicides that Europe has. (New York Times September 22, 2000). This is another example of nations without capital punishment that has lower homicide rates than nations with the death penalty. So, it is just an assumption that capital punishment does if we c deter crime. Similarly, United Kingdom is another example of capital punishment does not deter crime....