In Cold Blood: Death Penalty
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Capital Punishment has been part of the criminal justice system since
the earliest of times. The Babylonian Hammurabi Code(ca. 1700 B.C.) decreed
death for crimes as minor as the fraudulent sale of beer(Flanders 3). Egyptians
could be put to death for disclosing the location of sacred burial
sites( ....
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.... The death penalty is irrational- a fact that should carry considerable
weight with rationalists. As Albert Camus pointed out, " Capital
punishment....has always been a religious punishment and is reconcilable with
humanism." In other words, society has long since left behind the archaic and
barbous" customs" from the cruel "eye for an eye" anti-human caves of religion-
another factor that should raise immediate misgivings for freethinkers.
State killings are morally bankrup ....
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