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**Capital Punishment Reality vs Assumptions** True patriotism requires courage—the courage to measure entrenched government policies against hard facts and core American values.

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.