7. 14th Amendment of the Constitution:
The common law rule imposed a mandatory death
sentence on all convicted murderers.
8. The Death Penalty is Constitutional
Congress or any state legislature may prescribe the death
penalty, also known as capital punishment, for murder
and other capital crimes.
10. Does the death penalty deter
crime?
Research says that each execution
carried out is correlated with about 74
fewer murders the following year...
11. Statistics states that there is an obvious negative
correlation in that when executions
increase, murders decrease, and when executions
decrease, murders increase...