Labels:book | magnetic stripe | sky OCR: This statistical graph shows that while executions have increased the murder rate has stayed the same Does this data support any conclusion about the effectiveness of the death penalty? The claim "The number of executions has not affected national murder rates 6bns ests causal relationship between the two: If the death penalty was deterrent murder we would see the murder rate drop as the number of executions rose It's possible however that other factors might be responsible for the data. staved cutions 66ns
