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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