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Interactive: Death Penalty in the United States
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Defenders of capital punishment argue that it deters crime, saves taxpayer dollars for prison expenses and gives closure and justice to the families of victims. In Why the Death Penalty Works, author William Tucker contends that murder rates go down when executions increase. Mitt Romney argues that the science of DNA fingerprinting may actually make capital punishment more effective in Can You Build a Foolproof Death Penalty? The article Studies Say Death Penalty Deters Crime examines the results of a series of academic studies on the impact that the death penalty has on homicide rates.

Those who oppose capital punishment argue that it is as much a murder as the crime committed by the offender, that a life sentence is a greater punishment, that capital punishment does not deter crime, and that there is a risk that innocent people could be executed. The many facets of the argument against the death penalty are explored in Reasonable Doubts: The Growing Movement Against the Death Penalty. The author of 35 Years After Furman, Death Penalty Still Cruel, Unusual argues against the “disturbing use of capital punishment in America.” Resistance to Death Penalty Building Across U.S. acknowledges the growing “skepticism toward and resistance to the death penalty” after a number of wrongful convictions were uncovered in the late 1990s.

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