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>>15889116
>Except that they do, it was demonstrated for a fact when the death penalty was abolished in the US on for the murder rate to soar.
Ok, first of all, the death penalty has not been abolished in the US, only in certain states.

Second, you're not even right. The murder rate never "soared":
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-nationally-and-state#nat1970
>For 2014, the average Murder Rate of Death Penalty states was 4.7, while the average Murder Rate of States without the Death Penalty was 3.8

Murder rates have been falling across most of the US, and are on average lower in states that don't have the death penalty. I realize this doesn't prove anything about the (in)effectiveness of the death penalty in deterring crime, but it does disprove your claim that the murder rate "soared".