cosmo kramer
Banned
problem here: niggers/mexicans aren't being controlled forokay
murder rates in death penalty states vs non death penalty states in America:
a few more graphs, along with this one, can be found here
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/deterrence-states-without-death-penalty-have-had-consistently-lower-murder-rates#stateswithvwithout
also shown in this table (highlighted = non-death penalty states)
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-nationally-and-state#MRord
and here
http://blog.amnestyusa.org/deathpenalty/us-homicide-rates-and-the-death-penalty/ and http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/death-penalty/us-death-penalty-facts/the-death-penalty-and-deterrence
http://blog.amnestyusa.org/deathpenalty/a-clear-scientific-consensus-that-the-death-penalty-does-not-deter/
sure it stops the criminal from committing more crimes but if they knew that there was a possibility that they would be executed for murdering someone, wouldn't they then perhaps commit more crimes (e.g. kill witnesses) in order to avoid capture?
states more likely to have the death penalty (and use it consistently) are the more conservative red states which have higher concentrations of negroes and in the case of texas, latino poison. shouldnt you extricate all of the relevant demographic variables here before establishing the certainty of this alleged non-relationship?
those data could well be telling us less about the effectiveness of the death penalty in deterring crime (though whatever independent effect it does have if it did have such an effect would probably be in my opinion very very small) and more about the types of individuals that tend to live in states with the death penalty and those that tend to live in states that don't
southern states have the most glaringly obvious confounding variable
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