Capital punishment is the legal infliction of the death penalty on persons convicted of a crime. ... "Let the punishment fit the crime" is its secondary counterpart (Cox). Both quotes imply that the murderer deserves to die and it was his own fault for putting himself on death row. ... I feel strongly toward using the death penalty as punishment for unspeakable crimes. ... Let the punishment fit the crime. ...

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It has been used in various crimes ranging from rape to the more recent crimes of terrorism and mass murders. ... The majority of their evidence comes from the Old Testament of the Bible in which it recommends the use of capital punishment for a certain number of crimes. There are also other people that quote the Sixth Commandment which reads, "Thou Shall Not Commit Murder." However, these interpretations of various passages from the either the Bible or the Commandments are often quoted out of context which then corrupts the sympathetic attitude of Judaism and Christianity, in which they both...

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These statistics clearly show that other forms of punishment are successful in the deterrence of crime and capital punishment is not needed. ... Common sense does demand retribution for crime, but justice doesn't demand killing those whom are already imprisoned (Death Penalty, 1987, p. 63). ... What he is saying in this quote is that a state cannot better society when it is taking part in such a savage and irreversible act as capital punishment. ... In fact in a USA today poll, 68% of respondents agreed that the death penalty deters crime (Honeyman & Ogloff, 1999, September 29). ... F...

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Capital punishment is the legal infliction of the death penalty on persons convicted of a crime (Cox). ... Many ancient societies accepted the idea that certain crimes deserved capital punishment. ... These methods of execution compared to those of the past are not meant for torture, but meant for punishment for the crime. ... "Let the punishment fit the crime" is its secondary counterpart (Cox). Both quotes imply that the murderer deserves to die and it was his own fault for putting himself on death row. ...

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