If the death penalty is removed, then criminals will feel that the gains of an illegal action will outweigh the risk of consequences. ... America has hundreds of laws and practices that are much older than the death penalty therefore; the death penalty is not outdated and does not need to be abolished. ... (F) Some people might say that no one life is more important than another life, but one life is not more important than seventeen other lives. ... " This argument is also invalid because in 2008 the Supreme Court ruled in Baze vs. ... Capital punishment should not be abolished because ...

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It is older then the Roman Empire, and has changed much since it's first use. ... In fact, the closest execution has ever come to being illegal was back in 1972, when the Supreme Court, in its 5-4 decision Furman vs. ... Even then, although the court ruled that the death penalty violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, it emphasized that it was only illegal in the way it was then administered. ... rder, believing that if two acts have the same ending or result, then those two acts are morally equivalent. ... Opponents ludicrously claim that the de...

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