41.   One of the most heavily patrolled sections of New York, it has a murder rate that is still twice the citywide average.

42.   Only Florida, among the southern states, shows a murder rate lower than the national average.

43.   Once dubbed the murder capital of America, Pennington fulfilled a bold promise to cut the murder rate in half in three years.

44.   Political killings and the crime wave plaguing black townships has given South Africa a murder rate estimated to be five times that of the United States.

45.   San Juan had the highest murder rate in the United States last year.

46.   So far this year, the murder rate is down slightly.

47.   South Africa remains one of the most violent societies in the world, with a murder rate eight times higher than that of the United States.

48.   Stabilization in the illegal drug markets and fewer turf wars among heavily armed teen-age dealers may also have led to the drop in murder rates.

49.   States with the death penalty have higher murder rates than do states without capital punishment, he said.

50.   States without the death penalty generally have far lower murder rates.