Harris deserved to die for this merciless actions and ruthless crimes. ... This just really shows how much of a 'monster' he is. ... We cannot let mass numbers of innocent lives die because of one individual. ... He showed no mercy therefore we shall show none, the reason I strongly believe this because we do it for the right reason we end the life of Harris who was a beast who did nothing but bring pain and suffering into this world and who showed no regret. ... In conclusion if we want to reduce the crimes we should reduce the criminals....

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People must realize that these people need to die for their horrible crimes! ... How would you feel if you were to be wrongly accused for a murder and put on death row? ... Be that as it may, your still going to die. ... The fact is that they are going to die no matter what. ... How is this helping our society? ...

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Many of the inmates scheduled to die have arrived at the end of their appeals through a long and tangled legal path. The question now remaining is how should they be executed (Mauro). ... The Black defendants were 38% more likely to be sentenced to die than others who committed similar crimes. ... Yet, we have to weigh what we accomplish by killing those who kill. ... Of course, in cases of clearly guilt or particularly heinous crimes, it's easy to say they deserve to die. ...

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How has life in jail become known as ten to fifteen years? ... In contrast to this argument though, we have Cynthia Gomez from the Inter-American University who states: "No human being has the privileged power of deciding who lives and who dies. ... As it is like this, how can we hold the responsibility of murdering someone just because of humans" natural characteristic of making mistakes?" And she makes a good point: Who are we to say who gets to live and who gets to die? ... No human being has the privileged power of deciding who lives and who dies. ...

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People are suppose to live and die, we can't make someone live if there no life. We can stop someone from dying when there alive. ... It is how the death was caused that you should be so worried about. ... If I killed someone I would want to die. ... People have to die sooner or later. ...

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We as a country, and even as a world, are far more civilized than we have been before. ... Who gives us the right to justify if a man lives or dies? ... In our world we see the beauty and also unfortunately the ugly and it's how we justify the punishments for these ugly and horrible happenings that makes us different from other countries. ... The criminals don't care if they die. ... Criminals have nothing to loose, they don't care if they die or get killed to the death penalty means nothing to them. ...

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Now, it's based on how much money people have. ... J. to die by execution."... If they don't want to be there how are they going to want to put up a good fight. ... Unknowingly, we as a whole pay for the killing of others, through the money we pay for taxes. ... So ponder on this question; How many innocent people have your tax dollars paid to be killed? ...

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In our society, we make the best laws that we can in accordance with the general idea of morality most people have. We do this in the hope that we can come as close as possible to the ideal, and create a productive and good place for all people to live. ... She tries to make the most of these by using metaphors to describe just what it is like for a woman to become pregnant, and then show how such situations would be considered completely absurd in any scenario other than a pregnancy. ... She claims that becoming pregnant is like waking up one morning and realizing you have been hooked up t...

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These recent school shootings have raised new questions about gun control:  How do we keep guns away from young people? ...  How strict should the punishment be? ... In addition, we feel that there need to be changes made to the system that allows a minor to gain access to a weapon as well as to the aspects of society that glorify such violence. ... They do not tell you that you son or daughter may die as a result of their accidentally accessing your gun when you are not home, or that they may take your gun to school and accidentally kill one of their classmates. ... Are th...

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An execution is one too many because, no matter how it's carried out, the death penalty is cruel, inhuman and degrading. ... If I killed someone I would want to die. ... Could it be that as long as the state is killing, we are sending a message that killing is a way to solve problems? ... People have to die sooner or later. It is just like saying that we should put all people that smoke in jail because that is attempt of murder to them. ...

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If one of your family members were convicted of murder, but they were completely innocent and were still put to death, how would you feel? ... As much as we wish it not true people are still going to commit murder and other devastating crimes. Many know the are going to die and don't care. ... They die never having thought about the completely cruel thing they did. If the death penalty doesn't deter crime then will we abolish it like many other countries have? ...

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Capital punishment is barbaric no matter how it is administered. ... We are told in the bible that "thou shall not kill" so by executing an individual despite their crime is gravely wrong. ... Imagine how traumatised the family and friends of the victim would be if they found out that their loved one had been wrongly accused and executed. ... Often by murdering a seriously convicted prisoner you are allowing them to die peacefully rather than letting them suffer a lifetime jail sentence. ... He murdered a whole building full of people and as a result of his punishment he created fame for hi...

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Thousands will die. ... We control the lives of these criminals and we should not waste them. ... Whether a man should die now or die later should not be the focus of the capital punishment debate. ... Every time we execute someone, we sink to the same level as the common killer. ... Every time we execute someone, we are desensitizing the value of human life. ...

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I feel we really are not supposed to kill each other, and two wrongs don't make a right, but I also feel that if someone kills a person they should be sentenced to death themselves. No one deserves to die unless god is ready to take them. ... If a person commits a crime as horrific as murder, I think they would probably rather die themselves then sit in prison for the rest of their life, and have to deal with the fact that they have took someone's life,. ... Personally, I think that if I killed someone, I would want to die because I would not and could not want to live my life kn...

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Many Jews still die from the death penalty and many still administer a needle for putting a criminal to death. ... Many people believe that no matter how sure you are that someone committed a crime, there is always a chance that they didn't. ... How very compassionate of the American government to give him a choice. ... By allowing the government and the legal system to decide who lives and dies is giving them a power not meant for man. ... We should not! ...

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Supporters of the death penalty often say things like how it provides justice and retribution, but who's really paying the price. ... We murder people who murder people to show that murder is wrong. ... Murder is morally wrong in our society, why should we be allowed to play god and determine who lives and who dies. ... But if someone is willing to kill another person they then have to be willing to die themselves. ... We need to improve law enforcement, prisons, and create more alternatives to imprisonment. ...

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Every day when we wake the first thing most of us do is turn on a television, radio, computer, or scan the local newspaper to see what has happened while we slept. ... The media exploits us, and we love every minute of it. ... How does the media's portrait of predator crime become social reality to the copycat? ... Nevertheless, the fact that New York's Zodiac was a copycat didn't change the fact that people had died. ... In June of 1986 Sue Snow of Washington State died from taking cyanide-laced Excedrin. ...

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Our society grants us all an equal opportunity to chose how to live our lives. ... Opponents believe not only are those untrue but that it is cruel and each human, no matter how heinous deserves the right to live. ... We could execute all three-thousand people on death row, and most people would not feel safer tomorrow. ... It sent high volts of electricity throughout the criminal until they died, violently shaking and convulsing. ... There will always be some question of innocence as to those we have put to death by some. ...

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Just as long as there's a major overhauling in the way that we treat criminals convicted of capital crimes. ... Since I obviously wasn't moral enough to see how wrong capital punishment was I was also a dope. ... "If death penalty cases, subject to far more rigorous safeguards than ordinary criminal cases, still manage to convict the innocent, how many innocent people are convicted of crimes that don't carry the death penalty? ... In short, we should maintain order by enforcing a death penalty for severe prison violence. ... The people who would die as a result of this would be ...

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Those who are against this convention often say, "its not whether or not the criminal deserves to die it is a question of if we have the right to kill them." ... Isn't it ironic how much we spend to ensure the well being of our assailants? ... Capital punishment is not a baleful archaic punishment for those we hate but rather a consequence for crimes that has saved more lives through deterrence than it has ever taken by implementation. ...

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The community may find this expensive and students find it oppressive, but how many more people have to die? ... We need more discipline in the family, in school, and even in public. We need to educate children that their actions do have consequences. As our country's morals keep declining and the murder rate continues to rise in schools, we will still be blaming our problems on anything but ourselves....

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It is wrong to have these killers laugh in the face of society just because they have a good lawyer that knows how to manipulate the system. ... We are blind to see most of the time, that we have a lot of corruption in the police force, and we do very little background checks on the jurors. ... They believe that two wrongs will never make a right and that it is not our decision to make if someone is to die or not, it is God to judge that person. ... What are we showing society by this? ... We must fight " fire with fire". ...

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It is wrong to have these killers laugh in the face of society just because they have a good lawyer that knows how to manipulate the system. ... We are blind to see most of the time, that we have a lot of corruption in the police force, and we do very little background checks on the jurors. ... They believe that two wrongs will never make a right and that it is not our decision to make if someone is to die or not, it is God to judge that person. ... What are we showing society by this? ... We must fight " fire with fire". ...

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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. ... In a modern society, we must respond in a better manner and we should demonstrate a full respect for life even if the person is a murderer. ... We can see many mistakes have been made in sentencing people to death. ... In the end they strongly assert that it is a gift to give the sentence of life without parole rather than executing, because nobody wants to die. However, capital punishment does not appear to be doing its job when we look at t...

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In Horton's article we are introduced to three different families whose sons are involved with gangs. ... Still he did not learn his lesson and claimed that he did not care if he died. ... Because she was raised in the same neighborhood as she raises her son in she understands how much the neighborhood could mean. ... If he's said 'I'd die for my country,' the principal probably would have given him a medal."' ... But all they told her was "There's nothing we can do." ...

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