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Capital Punishment Capital punishment should be introduced into Australia for unspeakable crimes

My first decision for supporting the death penalty is it's correlation to the crime rate in a country where it exists. the United Nations currently has one hundred and eighty nine countries in its membership and among them one hundred and eight is already joining the list of the countries to abolish capital punishment and the United States is not part of it and we should not be. Is banning capital punishment good for a country? Let's take a look at the United Kingdom, our cousin over the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Unlike us, the United Kingdom has already abolished the death penalty and how is the statue of crime rate in their country? According to the Machin and Meghir's essay, in the United Kingdom their crime rate had increased rapidly through the 1970s and the 1980s, the increase is far greater than the rest of the Europe and unexpected. From another essay "Crime of almost every variety has increased enormously over the past 80 years in England" (Wolpin, 815). A country's reputation usually comes from its wealth, law system and criminal rates. In a country where the crime rate is high, it usually means its law system is poorly constructed, when the law system is not functioning well, the commerce of its country will be affected. Capital punishment, Crime rate, law system and one country's health is all connected, like a food chain. Capital punishment is capable of deterrent criminal action and it can lower the crime rate, so it is in our best interests not to abolishes it but, keep it.

My second argument for keeping capital punishment is that it can provide a safer environment for us. How many times has something like this appeared in a national television show or newspapers about a recently captured killer walks free from death because he planned the whole murder plot purposely in a state where capital punishment do not exist? I bet many of us

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