Wow Chase!!!! You are a genious! Lets advocate death penalty in Latin America...lets allow this...it will certainly finish the crimes here as the same way it was stopped in the US states where it is in practice...
It surprises me that YOU -who should know about the complexes causes of these crimes(poverty, social difference, bad conditions of life, all kind of governement's negligence regarding to people etc etc etc) simply ignore them...and think that killing the criminals... it will STOP ...It WONT!!!!!!
Anyway I think I need to show you some PROOF ---
http://www.antideathpenalty.org/reasons.html
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/01/17/usdom12437.htm