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I am against the death penalty. Some reasons why this is so, is the deterrence or lack there of. Another reason is how easy some innocent person can be rushed through the system and executed. My final reason is constitutionality, should the state or government be allowed to execute people at all. I will explain those reasons n the following paragraphs why I’m against the death penalty. The first reason why I’m against the death penalty is the deterrence that it should cause. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, ”The report noted that the Texas crime rate rose 4% in 2001, nearly five times the national average, and the state posted a 7.6% increase in homicides. At the same time, the total number of executions in Texas is more than three times that of any other state in the nation” (“Facts” 3). That says that even though Texas has the highest executions, their crime rate has not gone down but up. In Lenhoff’s article “Debating the Death Penalty” says, “Opponents of capital punishment point to studies that indicate that the murder rate does not fall when the death penalty is used heavily” (Lenhoff 6). That means exactly what its says. Another quote from that article says how some crime