FOX News STARKE, Fla. — Florida on Tuesday carried out its first execution since a botched lethal injection procedure prompted a moratorium and state investigation. Gov. Charlie Crist's office said Mark Dean Schwab was put to death by lethal injection at 6:15 p.m. Schwab was convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing 11-year-old boy. The execution was the initial test of Florida's new lethal injection procedure, which was instituted after Angel Diaz died in December 2006. Needles to inject the deadly chemicals into Diaz missed their mark and he suffered burns and extreme pain. Schwab, 39, unsuccessfully challenged Florida's new execution procedure, claiming it could also cause pain and suffering. He was executed for the 1991 death of Junny Rios-Martinez of Cocoa. Outside the prison where the execution took place, the boy's family clapped and cheered when they heard the news that Schwab had died.
Wall Street Journal - Recent evidence, however, suggests that the death penalty, when carried out, has an enormous deterrent effect on the number of murders. More precisely, our recent research shows that each execution carried out is correlated with about 74 fewer murders the following year.
The study examined the relationship between the number of executions and the number of murders in the U.S. for the 26-year period from 1979 to 2004, using data from publicly available FBI sources. The chart nearby shows the number of executions and murders by year. There seems to be an obvious negative correlation in that when executions increase, murders decrease, and when executions decrease, murders increase.
**Even if that is not the case, at least they are denied the option of killing again when freed, something that happens all to often under the "soft on crime", "hug a criminal" New Labour scum government that we have.
Sadly our last hangman Albert Pierpoint(above) is dead, alas his post has sat empty for far to long. Roll on the day when the UK has a new hangman(or woman equality and all that) to reduce crime.
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Thanks for the link back. More people need to hear about that research, it's common sense that it would deter criminals, but in today's world that's free of common sense, people unfortunately need to be convinced of it.
Even easier to prove it works, 100% of convicts killed do not re-offend ever.
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