When Society Kills
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Capital punishment is not "actual" punishment. It's a capital
reaction to a type of criminal act. It serves no purpose. When a person is
executed, the person learns no lesson. He or she cannot say, "Hey! I
learned my lesson. I surely won't do that again," for he or she is dead.
Although the ....
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.... mandated safeguards that can be summarized as
follows:
Juries must be given clear guidelines on sentencing, which result
in explicit provisions for what constitutes aggravating and mitigating
circumstances. Defendants must have a dual trial--one to establish guilt or
innocence and if guilty a second trial to determine whether or not they
would get the death penalty. Defendants sentenced to death are granted
oversight protection in an automatic appeal to the state supreme cour ....
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