Oscar Wilde's long poem,"The Ballad of Reading Gaol," is an example of a death sentence, hanging, and describes us how brutal the punishment is. With this historical example we can easily say that nobody has the exact right to give a death penalty order because it is applied unfairly, retribution of homicide is immoral, and there is a risk to execute innocent people. ... In a system with the death penalty, vengeance is encouraged which causes another killing. ... In addition, the judging system may not be reliable which can cause a fatal error. ... We can see many mistakes have been made...

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Bryan organizes his body part in problem-cause-solution order. ... ", and explained statistics, like the one in the sentence "A kind of astonishing error rate -- one out of nine people innocent. ... And parts of the speech can be very rhythmic because of some compact parallelism and repetition the speaker likes to use. ... He can tell a story in the least words, yet to the best effect, and most importantly, to the point. ... And his speech illustrates to us that although the content, the message of a speech matters, how they are conveyed is also very important....

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During the same twenty-eight years over 650 people have been executed. ... These statistics are just one example of how the system of capitol punishment has proven to be unreliable. A recent study by Columbia University Law School found that two thirds of all capitol crime contained serious errors. ... Once someone is killed there is nothing anybody can do to restore the lost life however many people feel in order to bring closure to the crime and ordeal of the victim's family the murderer must be killed. That way the family can feel justified and it is ensured that the murderer will cre...

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How do capital punishment supporters respond to these arguments? Phelps notes, "People these days want revenge..." ... He also responds to Radelet, "All human activities...cause innocent people to suffer wrongful death, but we don't give them up". ... How can murder not be immoral? ... So how can the constitution be brought into this argument, since the articles make no mention of capital punishment? ...

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Those who oppose capital punishment ask how far the argument of economy can be carried. ... You may choose to pardon crimes committed against yourself, but you can never pardon crimes committed against someone else. ... But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. ... I am sure you can think of many other mass killings of people. ... They argue that we cannot treat people as mere instruments to our survival. ...

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Putting people to death who have committed certain heinous acts of crime is a practice of ancient standing, but, in the United States, in the latter half of the Twentieth Century and into the Twenty-first Century, it has become a very controversial issue. ... Indeed, restoring capital punishment is the will of the people, as, according to Ernest Van Den Haag in "The Death Penalty: Opposing Viewpoints," over 70 percent of the American populous support the death penalty in one form or another. ... Whatever the arguments of those opposed to capital punishment may be, value can never be put on a f...

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"A killer who is killed can not kill again, but a killer in jail until he dies also can't kill." ... What the Bible has to say about capital punishment affects peoples view on it. ... It contains an element of forgiveness while still making the offender confess to the misery he has caused others. ... Why do governments kill people to show other people that killing is wrong? ... Another reason to get rid of the death penalty is the possibility of error. ...

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