The death penalty is the punishment used in 38 states, and many
other countries, as a way of disposing the people in society who are
mentally or emotionally disturbed, love their families very much, have a
bad temper, or just plain made a mistake. These reasons account for many
homicides that take place each year. Capitol Punishment is just not humane
and should not be legal.
The argument most often used to support the death penalty in
former-Soviet republics is the necessity of having a particularly
efficacious deterrent against murders and other common crimes. However,
none of the many studies about the matter have been able to show that death
penalty is more of a deterrent than other punishments. It's completely
wrong to think that most of those who commit serious crimes such as murders
consider the consequences of their actions. Murders are often committed
when the criminal is blinded with passion, when emotions prevail over......
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