Is The Death Penalty Just?
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? Politicians, lobbyists, philosophers, and
experts from all walks of life continuously debate this controversial subject.
Has any one of these individuals listened to the rest of us? The answer in many
cases is no.
The United States is a democracy of embodied officials, who represent
the people, ....
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.... who speak against the death penalty cite it as barbaric.
The definition of murder, according to Webster, is "the unlawful killing of a
human being with malice aforethought." Therefore an uneducated person would
classify murder as equally barbaric. The mitigating factor of the death penalty
is, or should be, an already established punishment for this crime. The killer
willingly committed the heinous act of taking a life, knowing they would be
subject to this penalty. Therefore, he deci ....
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