there were a total of 15,168,100 arrests;
             33,050 for forcible rape; 1,506,200 involving drug violations and 19,020 for
             murder and non-negligent manslaughter. The death penalty was enforced 45
             times. The death penalty is an expensive punishment, since 1976 the united
             states have spent 700 million dollars in it. Methods of the death penalty
             include lethal injection, gas chamber, electric chair, hanging and fire squad. In
             a 1986 poll 70% of Americans favored the death penalty as a punishment for
             murder. There have been many comparisons of crime rates of death penalty
             states to non- death penalty states. These clearly show that the death penalty
             has no effect on the deteration of crime. The homicide rates in Michigan,
             Ohio and Illinois rise and fall along with Wisconsin. Michigan, Ohio and
             Illinois all have the death penalty. Wisconsin does not. In 1994, the average
             murder rate in a death penalty state of a population of 100,00 was 8.0, for a
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