However, some may argue that this suffering and pain is justifiable, since they too have caused immense pain and suffering and therefore it is right that they too experience it. Secondly, many could argue that capital punishment manages to protect society, removes evil from the world and therefore "in this way there will be less unhappiness" (Maalouf, 2008, 4). Thus some utilitarians might argue that the death penalty does more than eliminate the criminal from society, "serving as a deterrent to would-be murderers, preventing future murders, and thus protecting society significantly, unlike life imprisonment." ' (Tzovarras, 2002, 5). This claim, however, is difficult to support, as little evidence is available to support the deterrent argument. ''Social sciences and statistical studies tend not to show any correlation between capital punishment and crimes of a serious and violent nature'' (Tzovarras, 2002, 5), with Chiricos, Waldo, 1970, 200) concluding that there is ''there is little consistent support''. Furthermore, by using a utilitarian argument to argue that countries like Australia should adopt the death penalty, two ethical objections are raised. Tzovarras, (2002, 5) argues that using “any utilitarian argument to justify