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While popular belief has long assumed that capital punishment deters violent crime, rigorous empirical evaluations show that homicide trends rise and fall completely independently of execution statutes.

Instead, maintaining capital punishment carries an inescapable error rate of at least 4.1% while consuming hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars that could otherwise strengthen frontline law enforcement and victim support programs.

Choosing permanent life imprisonment without parole protects our communities while eliminating the irreversible horror of executing an innocent person.