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Capital Punishment: Why or Why Not?
Justice can not be served until the debate on capital punishment is
resolved and all states have come to agree that the death penalty is the
best way to stop crime completely. The American Heritage Dictionary of
the English Language, Third Edition defines execution as the act or an
instance of putting to death or being put to death as a lawful penalty.
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Joseph de Maistre, an eighteenth century French Diplomat. He is right, if
we give up on punishing a deadly criminal, then we throw our society into
chaos and let the criminals freely do as they please. I would feel safe if
I knew that anyone who tried to fatally harm me would be put to death. But,
in today's society when someone can kill someone, get sentence for life,
then get paroled and then freed to go about and do the same crime again,
frankly ....
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