Sentence examples for lower murder rate from inspiring English sources

A third of Mexico has a lower murder rate than Louisiana, America's most murderous state.

Even Mexico has a lower murder rate.

And then to move to Canada, which has an even lower murder rate?

Later, in an appearance with Mr. Kelly to herald the latest crime statistics, the mayor said the lower "murder rate is an indisputable measure of progress".

The murder rate in New York continued to go down after the state abolished the death penalty; Texas executes more people than any other state, yet does not have a lower murder rate than some states without capital punishment.

Mr. Calderón also often points to the homicide statistic for Mexico as a whole, which at 12 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants translates into a lower murder rate than the city he will visit this week: Washington, D.C.

Perhaps their strongest talking point is that Britain has stronger gun control laws than the United States and lower murder rates.

States that have abolished capital punishment often have lower murder rates than those that have yet to do so.

Gun ownership has been three times as high in Switzerland as in Germany, but the Swiss have had lower murder rates.

According to the study, published last year in The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, European nations with more guns had lower murder rates.

Countries such as Denmark and Japan, where income equality is high, have lower murder rates – as do those where fish consumption is high.