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Capital Punishment: Deters murder, and is just Retribution
Capital punishment, is the execution of criminals by the state, for
committing crimes, regarded so heinous, that this is the only acceptable
punishment. Capital punishment does not only lower the murder rate, but
it's value as retribution alone is a good reason for handing out death
sentences. Support for the death penalty in the U.S. has risen to an
average ....
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.... 1976, eight
murders are deterred for each execution that is carried out in the U.S.A.
He goes on to say, "If one execution of a guilty capital murderer deters
the murder of one innocent life, the execution is justified." To most
supporters of the death penalty, like Ehrlich, if even 1 life is saved, for
countless executions of the guilty, it is a good reason for the death
penalty. The theory that society engages in murder when executing the
guilty, is considered invalid by mo ....
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