Professor Happeny CRIM 210
02/27/2017
Paper Topic
My research paper will be discussing the impact that the death penalty has on deterring crime. I will be examining case studies as well as investigating the period of 1967-1977 in particular. During this time there were no executions in the United States due to the Supreme Court decision Furman v. Georgia, which struck down capital punishment and called for all pending death sentences to be reduced to life imprisonment. I will look at the impact of banning the death penalty and compare crime rates to when it was reinstated. After thorough research, I will defend the claim that the death penalty in fact, does not deter crime. One of the biggest reasons for this is the fact