Statistics
- The US had a 2012 murder rate of 4.8
victims per 100,000 people around the country.
- In
Texas, Dallas County alone has uncovered 30 wrongful
convictions since 2001.
- Death penalty support peaked at 80 percent in 1994.
- The latest Gallup sample in 2013 found
that support was down to 60 percent for the first time in 40 years.
- 2009 study by University of Colorado
scholars found that 88 percent of experts say that the death penalty doesn’t
affect the murder rate.
- Murder rate per 100,000 residents in
non-death-penalty states has been consistently higher than the rate in states
with executions.
- Prison homicides have increased in the
past year from 39 to 55 or a 44% increase.
- Prison gangs have been behind 50% or
more of all murders within state prisons.
- Department of Justice’s Office of Legal
Policy had an examination of all state prisons and 33 agencies had presence of
prison gangs.
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