DEATH ROW--death penalty in America

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The lists don't mean much unless you know something about the laws there User. Take Norway for example. The maximum sentence there is 15 years. You can kill a 1000 people and only serve 15 years for it. Sound cool?

This is a messy paste but everywhere you see a % more than Norway indicates the higher crime rates in the U.S. as opposed to Norway (a link follows which is pretty cool--you can input any country and compare crime rates).

Regardless, we're talking about the death penalty not prison sentences. No I don't think 15 years is a sufficient sentence but that's an orange to my apple. I never suggested we should do away with LWOP or otherwise modify anything but the death sentence.




Rape rate 19.2
Ranked 15^th. 27.3
Ranked 9^th. 42% more than Norway

Total crimes 330,071
Ranked 29^th. 11.88 million
Ranked 1^st. 36 times more than Norway
Violent crime > Gun crime > Guns per 100 residents 31.3
Ranked 11^th. 88.8
Ranked 1^st. 3 times more than Norway
Violent crime > Intentional homicide rate 0.68
Ranked 59^th. 4.7
Ranked 7^th. 7 times more than Norway

Violent crime > Murder rate 29
Ranked 76^th. 12,996
Ranked 9^th. 448 times more than Norway

Violent crime > Murder rate per million people 5.93
Ranked 84^th. 42.01
Ranked 43^th. 7 times more than Norway

Violent crime > Rapes per million people 191.85
Ranked 15^th. 274.04
Ranked 9^th. 43% more than Norway

Linky:

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info...ates/Crime