The FBI recent­ly released its Uniform Crime Report for 2003. The num­ber of mur­ders in the United States increased slight­ly from 16,229 to 16,503. Once again, the South had the high­est mur­der rate (6.9 mur­ders per 100,000 peo­ple). In 2003, the South car­ried out 89% of the exe­cu­tions in the coun­try. The Northeast had the low­est mur­der rate in the coun­try (4.2 mur­ders per 100,000 peo­ple) and car­ried out no exe­cu­tions in 2003. (2003 FBI Uniform Crime Report, October 27, 2004 (exe­cu­tion num­bers from DPIC)). Read the report. See Deterrence.


2003 MURDER RATE BY REGION
(per 100,000 peo­ple)

UNITED STATES
5.7
NORTHEAST
4.2
MIDWEST
4.9
SOUTH
6.9
WEST
5.7

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