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Death Penatly

Date Submitted: 05/01/2003 12:57:40
Length: 4 pages (1223 words)
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Abolitionists claim that capital punishment does not deter murderers from killing or killing again. They base most of their argument against deterrence on statistics. States that use it extensively show a higher murder rate than those that have abolished the death penalty. Also, states that have abolished the death penalty and then reinstituted it show no significant change in the murder rate. They say adjacent states with the death penalty and those without show no …

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…to appear “the final solution” is to kill all criminals. If the death penalty is abolished, it will not improve the people’s behavior. Right now most people would rather to die than to spend lifetime in cell. So its hard to say, what will happen if we abolish the death penalty, but I know one thing for sure is that the prisons will become over crowded and also the murder rates will not change.

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