Crime and the Death Penalty What is our world coming to? Four rapes, seven-teen robberies, forty-five aggravated assaults, 163 burglaries, 434 larceny-thefts, eighty-eight auto thefts, and four arsons all in one New Jersey day-- a The word crime is not an unfamiliar word to any of us. We read the shocking headlines in newspapers, hear the broadcast announcements on television, we ourselves may have been victims of a crime. However, is there being anything done to end it. In recent years crime in America has been on a rise. This has not only led to an overcrowding in prisons, but also in an increase in the number of death sentences handed down by