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INTRODUCTION
The first established death Total number of inmates 1279
penalty laws -Eighteenth death row in malaysia (2018)
Century B.C. in the Code of King
Hammurabi of Babylon, which Drug offenses 932
codified the death penalty for murder 317
25 different crimes.
A legal process whereby a person is
put to death by the state as a
punishment for a crime
"[C]apital punishment may be morally required not for retributive reasons, but in order to prevent the taking of
innocent lives...
The foundation for our argument is a large and growing body of evidence that capital punishment may well have a
deterrent effect, possibly a quite powerful one. A leading study [The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: Evidence
from a 'Judicial Experiment,' Hashem Dezhbakhsh and Joanna Shepherd, July 2003] suggests that each execution
prevents some eighteen murders, on average... If the current evidence is even roughly correct, then a refusal to impose
capital punishment will effectively condemn numerous innocent people to death...
Contrary to widely-held beliefs, based on partial information or older studies, a wave of recent evidence suggests the
possibility that capital punishment saves lives...
Capital punishment may well have strong deterrent effects; there is evidence that few categories of murders are
inherently un-deterrable, even so-called crimes of passion; some studies find extremely large deterrent effects; error
and arbitrariness undoubtedly occur, but the evidence of deterrence suggests that prospective murderers are receiving
a clear signal."