THE DEATH PENALTY DETERS MURDERSby Jules Fogue Souop

The premeditation

Boston Marathon bomb scene

Victims

Families and friends of Victims

United States of America’s Constitution

14th Amendment of the Constitution:The common law rule imposed a mandatory death

sentence on all convicted murderers."

The Death Penalty is ConstitutionalCongress or any state legislature may prescribe the death

penalty, also known as capital punishment, for murder and other capital crimes.

Proportionality RequirementThe U.S. Supreme Court has determined that a penalty must be

proportional to the crime.

Does the death penalty deter crime?

Research says that each execution carried out is correlated with about 74

fewer murders the following year...

Statistics states that there is an obvious negative correlation in that when executions increase,

murders decrease, and when executions decrease, murders increase...

Conclusion: The capital punishment or death penalty significantly deters murders.