Capital Punishment
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Today’s system of is filled with inequalities and injustices. The commonly offered arguments for the death penalty are filled with holes.
"It was a deterrent. It removed killers. It was the ultimate punishment. It is biblical. It satisfied the public’s need for retribution. It relieved the an ....
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.... that capital punishment deters more than long prison terms do."(Cavanagh 4)
In relation to the times in the French Revolution where murderers and thieves heads were thrown into the guillotine, our society today is at a much higher level of thinking. Why should we bring ourselves to the level of thinking that was used almost two hundred years ago? The executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, has stated that
"…people are increasingly realizing that the more we resort to killing as ....
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