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__Final Stage__ __Question:__ __Does using the death penalty as a form of criminal or capital punishment have a positive effect on the crime rates of capital crimes committed in the United States between 1989 and 2009?__

__Hypothesis:__ __Capital punishment or the death penalty is the execution of a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. I believe that as time progresses from 1989 to 2009, the use of capital punishment for capital crime offenders will help reduce the amount of capital crimes committed in the United States.__ __Background Information:__ __This topic was chosen because I felt it was the most appropriate topic I could find in terms of the general outline of this project. One of the main reasons I chose this topic was because I recently watched a m __ovie which involved in the death penalty, so ironically when this project came up, the death penalty was one of the first things I wanted to look into.__ __ __The death penalty is defined as an execution or putting a condemned person to death. A person being condemned is giving three solutions. The first is a tranquilizer like drug which numbs all areas of the body. The second puts the criminal to sleep. While the third is the final deadly dose which shuts down the whole body until he or she is declared dead.__ __In most places that practice capital punishment it is reserved for murder, espionage, treason, or as part of military justice. In some countries sexual crimes, such as rape, adultery, incest and sodomy, carry the death penalty, as do religious crimes such as apostasy in Islamic nations (the formal renunciation of the State religion). In many countries that use the death penalty, drug trafficking is also a capital offence. In China, human trafficking and serious cases of corruption are punished by the death penalty.__ __NON RELATED FUN FACT: Canada is 1 of 95 countries currently abolishing the death penalty.__

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__This is just a sample of the population of the United States. The data was collected by a random survey sample.__ __Response Bias: People may answer a certain way based on the society they live in, if someone lives in a city where Capital Punishment is praised and has been praised for a long time, than people are going to be affected by this and are going to answer the survey as pro-capital punishment, while others may be the opposite and answer anti-capital punishmen__ __Leading Question: This may also be considered a leading question due to its limited answers. The only answers available are: life without parole, death penalty and no opinion. Someone may have other thoughts than the three above choices but cannot express what those thoughts are due to a lack of freedom in the voting.__





__Number Of Executions between 1930 1999____￼__ __The death penalty has been in full effect from the day it was brought into full effect. However, in the mid 1960s to mid 1980s the Death penalty was to only be used in very extreme cases of capital crime. Such as rape or murder with aggravating circumstances.__ __￼__ __￼____Mean = 309.5/39 = 7.94____Median = 9.4 +9.5 /2 = 9.45____Mode = 5.6__

__Two Variable Data:__ __The correlation coefficient is -.0125. This means that the data displayed on the graph ranges to be about a weak negative. This means that the X and Y factors of my hypothesis are not related according to the data or that they have a very weak correlation. Therefore (x) of Murder Rates do not depend on (y) Number of executions which occur.__

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__Conclusion:__ __In a nutshell my presentation was to help prove that Homicide Rates and Execution Rates in the United States are correlated in a way that, the more executions occur, the lower homicide rates are going to be. Through a thorough investigation and cumulative amounts of data which continually show signs of repetition and tediousness, ( I.e à Execution Rates and Homicide Rates do not fluctuate throughout data (all data on all sources is the same). I have come to two conclusions. One definitive and one hypothetical. The first relates to my data as a whole. From all data collected between 1970 to 2009, it is the correlation coefficient that states the data is not correlated what so ever with a correlation of -.125. However, If you were to look at the data individually, from 1999 -2009, it is easy to see that as Executions rates steadily increase, Homicides rates steadily decrease at a similar rate. In conclusion, the Death penalty was not very effective in earlier years which results in a lop sided correlation coefficient, but over time the death penalty has begun to take its toll and is start to show signs of reward with decreased Homicide rates.__