But given the resources available to the US government for restraining criminals, the carrying out of the death penalty is practically nonjustified and unnecessary. ... The government has the resources necessary to restrain criminals without resorting to the death penalty. ... With our Holy Father, we seek to build a society so committed to human life that it will not sanction the killing of any human person." ... I am against state-sanctioned killing not because of a partisan political position or religious scruple, but because it is illogical and it does not work. ...

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However, it has been proven that states with the death penalty sanctioned have higher murder rates than those without. ... Several people directly, and at times indirectly, affected by the criminals favor the death penalty to compensate for the wrongdoing the criminal has done to the family of the victim. ... It is wrong for everyone involved: the innocent that is being prosecuted, criminals, the family of the victim, and our nation as a whole. ...

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Since our nation's founding, the government, colonial, federal and state, has punished murder and, until recent years, Rape with the ultimate sanction: death. ... Our criminal justice system cannot be made fail-safe because it is run by human beings, who are fallible? ...

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More than one shock was usually required to kill the criminal, so it drained a massive amount of electricity from the power company. ... The cost of the apparatus and maintenance of the procedures of the death penalty, including death row and the endless appeals far outweigh the expense of maintaining in prison the tiny fraction of criminals who would otherwise be slain (Anderson, 46). ... While this might sound expensive it is pennies when compared to the expense of killing a criminal. ... In the last hundred years there have been more than 75 documented cases of wrongful conviction of crimin...

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Those who oppose capital punishment contend that supporters of the death penalty fail to consider the complexities of our criminal justice system. They insist most Americans believe the criminal justice system favors the rich over the poor. They argue that the death penalty underestimates the worth of life and that the discrepancy is equal to legislative hypocrisy and that if the sanction is not going to be applied, it should be abolished. ...

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Every Western Industrial nation has stopped executing criminals, except the United States. Most Western nations have executed criminals in this century, and many were executed after World War II. ... It prevents criminals from returning to society, and is less expensive than capital punishment (Vila & Morris, 1997, p.255). ... Criminals shouldn't be the objects of anger; they should be objects of pity. ... State sanctioned executions expose more of the violence and injustice that are in everyone. ...

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