Capital Punishment14

This page aims to discuss capital punishment as rationally as possible. I propose to present information which may help people make up their minds about whether or not capital punishment keeps them safe, makes economic sense, or provides a satisfactory "closure" for the victims of homicide. How, if at all, this information affects your response, either emotional or political, to capital punishment remains entirely up to you. The questions of fact concerning capital punishment fall …

…murder rate stopped abruptly, giving way to a continuing decline. The time series data below begins in 1962, the year before the last actual execution in Canada. The murder rate per 100000 population in Canada rose between 1962 and 1975 by 0.127 per year. After the abolition of capital punishment in 1976, it declined at the rate of 0.029 per year. The plot of these rates looks like this: Table of Canadian Murder Rated Before and After the Abolition of Capital Punishment