The death penalty.

[Khuutra]

huaxiong90 said:

Khuutra said:

States without the death penalty do not have higher recidivism than those that do.

Cite some studies that show that murder rates go up with an abolition of capital punishment.

Sure, here you go:

Again, as with countries, states vary too.

Oh word? Where's that from, exactly?

For food for your thoughts:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fHIlX6nFCRoJ:www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articles/JLpaper.pdf

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/dward/classes/compoliss/copyrightedarticles/Bailey&Peterson.html

Don't act like an undergrad: corrolation and causation are not the same thing.