Capital Punishment in Print Media

     When looking at multiple news reports from different cities ranging from Canada to the United States, the majority of print media I read about the topic the more I found that most are for the death penalty, saying that nearly every inmate they execute they save up to 18 lives. Personally I don't think that is true but nonetheless someone who wasted years of their life studying how to deal with a criminal appropriately suggests it to be accurate. I'm not sure if this is because the news papers covering it are generally down in the southern states where there's not much to do other than drink some beer and marry your sister and this is just an excuse to kill some people but it does seem to be working for them. Maybe they know something places like Canada doesn't, besides, if you have a life sentence for killing someone what do you have to loose by killing another who's in there for 5 or 7 years who actually has something to live for. I admit the print does have a very different view on Capital Punishment than most other mediums I have covered, but I don't think there's a right or wrong, I just think people should do whatever gets the job done and move on with their day.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/us/18deter.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0