http://burningourmoney.blogspot.com/2006/07/cost-effective-justice-5.html
"Go Figure: Homicides since 1945. The Sunday Telegraph reports that "homicides have soared by a quarter under Labour". Since 1997 they've averaged 737 pa, against 601 pa in the seven preceeding Tory years. Hardly surprising you might think. But this isn't a party political matter: it's much more serious than that.T he fact is that Britain's homicide rate has been soaring ever since we abolished capital punishment forty years ago. In 1964 there were fewer than 300 homicides: last year there were 850. That's virtually a threefold increase, with an additional 550 people now being killed every single year."
