Capital Punishment Should Be Abolished
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Evidence suggests that the death penalty does not deter people from
committing crimes. It is a cruel and cold blooded form of punishment and there
have been instances where innocent people were sentenced to death and later
found to be innocent.
The most common methods of execution are hanging an ....
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.... stipulates: "In the punishment of
stoning to death, the stones should not be so large that the person dies on
being hit by one or two of them."1 This is the kind of cruelty which is
inflicted on the executed in those countries. Other methods of execution, like
the electric chair and hanging, are also quite cruel to the convicted. That is
one of the reasons the death penalty should be abolished.
Does the death penalty really deter criminals?
There is very little valid evidence to suggest t ....
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