Crime in Arizona
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Statistics
| Year | Population | Total | Rate (per 100,000) | Violent crimes | Property crimes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Rate (per 100,000) | Total | Rate (per 100,000) | ||||||||
| 1960 | 1,302,161 | 39,243 | 3,013.7 | 2,704 | 207.7 | 36,539 | 2,806.0 | ||||
| 1965 | 1,608,000 | 57,049 | 3,547.8 | 3,092 | 192.3 | 53,957 | 3,355.5 | ||||
| 1970 | 1,772,482 | 104,829 | 5,914.2 | 6,564 | 370.3 | 98,265 | 5,543.9 | ||||
| 1975 | 2,224,000 | 185,515 | 8,341.5 | 12,184 | 547.8 | 173,331 | 7,793.7 | ||||
| 1980 | 2,715,357 | 221,866 | 8,170.8 | 17,673 | 650.9 | 204,193 | 7,519.9 | ||||
| 1985 | 3,187,000 | 226,793 | 7,116.2 | 19,202 | 602.5 | 207,591 | 6,513.7 | ||||
| 1990 | 3,665,228 | 289,140 | 7,888.7 | 23,911 | 652.4 | 265,229 | 7,236.4 | ||||
| 1995 | 4,218,000 | 346,450 | 8,213.6 | 30,095 | 713.5 | 316,355 | 7,500.1 | ||||
| 2000 | 5,130,632 | 299,092 | 5,829.5 | 27,281 | 531.7 | 271,811 | 5,297.8 | ||||
| 2005 | 5,953,007 | 317, 823 | 5,351.2 | 30,478 | 512.0 | 287,345 | 4,838.0 | ||||
| 2008 | 6,500,180 | 307, 979 | 4,738.0 | 29,059 | 447.0 | 278,920 | 4,291.0 | ||||
| Source: http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/azcrime.htm | |||||||||||
Capital punishment laws
Capital punishment is legal in Arizona. The method used is lethal injectionLethal injection
Lethal injection is the practice of injecting a person with a fatal dose of drugs for the express purpose of causing the immediate death of the subject. The main application for this procedure is capital punishment, but the term may also be applied in a broad sense to euthanasia and suicide...
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