Crime And The Death Penalty
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What is our world coming to? Four rapes, seven-teen robberies,
forty-five aggravated assaults, 163 burglaries, 434 larceny-thefts,
eighty-eight auto thefts, and four arsons all in one New Jersey day-- a
period of twenty-four hours.
The word crime is not an unfamiliar word to any of us. We read the ....
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.... capital punishment are only thinking of
the criminal and how cruel it is for them. But, shouldn’t we think of the
families that are broken apart now because of the merciless acts of these
criminals. Think of Susan Smith, how she knowingly drove her car off into
a lake with her two children strapped to the seats. Think of how they must
have felt as the cold water started to fill the cabin of the car, and then
ultimately drown them. Barbaric is exactly the word I would use to
describe her acti ....
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