“The Body's Temperature After Electrocution Is Around 138 Degrees Fahrenheit”

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There is not enough evidence to prove whether capital punishment deters crime. However, a study by W. Bailey of the period from 1967-68 showed a deterrent effect in twenty-seven states. A later study by him showed a deterrent effect in twenty-five states. During the interval on capital punishment in the United States, murder increased by one hundred percent. A review of the fourteen nations who abolished the death penalty showed that the murder rate increased by seven percent from the five-year pre-abolition period to the five-year post-abolition period. Consequently, allowing a murderer to sit in prison is not an adequate means of punishment because of the possible chance for parole. If so, who is to say he would not kill again? If the murderer were sentenced to death the first time he was convicted, innocent lives would be saved. The punishment would fit the crime and the victim’s family and society would feel at ease knowing that ...

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