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Originally Posted by Skybird
We had such statistics during a dedicated seminary at university, 1995 I think. Indeed the number of unsolved (or even not recognized!) murder cases are what messes up that beautifully drawn graphics bar for Western countries. I cannot quote all that stuff by memory anymore, but I remember the conclusions literature described. A link between number of executions and crime rate statistically has not been proven and even was not hinted at, at least until the mid-90s. since it is also unlogical to assume that such a link could exist in Western nations (as I argued before), this is no surprise.
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But that bar includes all murders. So unsolved or not, executions is to be held accountable for the step decline in the number of murders. So I don't quite get what you are getting at - that graph is 'ALL' murders.
A quote by Edward Koch:
"Had the death penalty been a real possibility in the minds of...murderers, they might well have stayed their hand. They might have shown moral awareness before their victims died...Consider the tragic death of Rosa Velez, who happened to be home when a man named Luis Vera burglarized her apartment in Brooklyn. "Yeah, I shot her," Vera admitted. "...and I knew I wouldn't go to the chair."