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Capital Punishment Should be Abolished
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 and shooting.
Countries like the U.S. use electrocution, gas chambe ....
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.... valid evidence to suggest that capital
punishment deters criminals. The most recent study of research findings on
the relationship between the death penalty and homicide rates, conducted
for the United Nations Committee on Crime Prevention and Control, in 1988,
has concluded that:"this research has failed to provide scientific proof
that executions have a greater deterrent effect than life imprisonment."1.
Many murders are committed under the influence of alcohol and drug ....
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