Deterring Death?

TEN WORST STATES FOR MURDER, 2003

STATE	PER 100,000
(1) Louisiana	13.0
(2) Maryland	9.5
(3) Mississippi	9.3
(4) Nevada	8.8
(5) Arizona	7.9
(6) Georgia	7.6
(7) South Carolina	7.2
(8) California	6.8
(9) Tennessee	6.8
(10) Alabama	6.6

All of these states have the death penalty.
Call it what it is, revenge, bloodlust, just don't call it a deterrent.