The death penalty in certain western countries has led to an increase in crime rate leading to a greater number of inmates in their prisons; therefore, the death penalty is not justifiable. Which fallacy is committed in the above argument?

The argument blames the death penalty for a rise in crime that it never shows it caused.

It links death penalty to more crime and hence to more prison inmates.

This causal claim is asserted without establishing any genuine cause-effect link.

A correlation or mere sequence is dressed up as causation.

Attributing an effect to something that is not its real cause is the false cause fallacy.