The phrase "Dead Man Walking" runs through each and every death row inmate approximately a thousand times a day, but should it? ... One could be spending and ending his life in captivity for simply walking down the wrong street on the wrong day. ... If it had not been for the silly, but clever ideas that her lawyer had to cross examine the daughter of the man that was killed, then this would be the perfect case of the wrongly accused. ... Capital punishment is a power that no man or woman deserves to make for another human being. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Whether a man should die now or die later should not be the focus of the capital punishment debate. ... The end result is the same....one more dead body, one more set of grieving parents, and one more cemetery slot. ...

• Word Count: 2255
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• Grade Level: High School