[MileHi]

Have we brought out the best in people by hiding capital punishment from them?

By the time a DP is carried out, no one remembers what it was about. Defeats the purpose of the DP.

[Morpheus2009]

We were pretty much a death penalty nation during the turn of the century, wild west, and even during two world wars, the murder rate was lower during those times as well, we also had plenty of the populace owning firearms as well.