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This 8 page paper argues that the death penalty is not a deterrent, that it is applied in appropriately and that it should be abolished. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Argument: The Death Penalty Should Be Abolished Research Compiled for
, Inc. by K. Von Huben 7/2010 Please Introduction When a state executes one of its death row inmates,
it performs its most solemn duty. However, if the state makes a mistake, there is no possible way it can rectify its error. Wasting even a single human life by
executing an innocent person is heinous; the fact that there have undoubtedly been innocent people killed in this way should be enough to cause a national re-examination of the use
of the death penalty. This paper argues that the death penalty should be abolished. Discussion We turn first to the arguments that are made to support the death penalty. There
are reasonable arguments that can be advanced in support of capital punishment, such as the idea of deterrence, and the idea that there are some crimes that demand the supreme
punishment. However, a sentence of life in prison would keep murderers from killing again; the problem is that a life sentence rarely means a life sentence; the system frees people
after a certain number of years, and sometimes they kill again. If the law were changed so that there was no possibility of parole, a lot of the debate over
capital punishment would cease. The other argument is that capital punishment is a deterrent; that is, executing prisoners stops others from committing the same crime lest they too face the
death penalty. Vermeule and Adrian argue that there is a growing body of evidence to suggest that "capital punishment may well have a deterrent effect, possibly a quite powerful one.
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