BRTD that doesn't prove anything. Your assertion seems to be that the death penalty causes high murder rates. But its also possible that high murder rates piss everyone off and cause them to demand the death penalty. It is also possible that there is no correlation at all, simply coincidence.
Michigan does not have a death penalty but the murder rate in Detroit is very high. How does that factor in?
The point is the death penalty does not function as a deterrent.
Your numbers don't prove that. How do you know that a repeal of the death penalty in Texas wouldn't increase the murder rate?
Seriously, posting crap like this just makes it more difficult to get rid of the death penalty. People are all too often blind to logical fallacies in their own thinking, but they always know a sh**tty opposing argument when they see one.
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