My first decision for supporting the death penalty is it's correlation to the crime rate in a country where it exists. According to Badinter's essay, the United Nations currently has one hundred and eighty nine countries in its membership and among them one hundred and eight is already joining the list of the countries to abolish capital punishment and the United States is not part of it and we should not be. Is banning capital punishment good for a country? Let's take a look at the United Kingdom, our cousin over the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Unlike us, the United Kingdom has already abolished the death penalty and how is the statue of crime rate in their country? According to the Machin and Meghir's essay, in the United Kingdom their crime rate had increased rapidly through the 1970s and the 1980s, the increase is far greater than the rest of the Europe and unexpected.