The Death Penalty Should Continue To Be Used In The U.S.

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and unfair.
These people who oppose it say that all human life has the right to be respected.
All human life does have the right to be respected but there is a point when
that right can be lost, if someone takes the life of another human being then
they have given up that right. Another claim the opposers to the death penalty
make is that the death penalty encourages more murders because if people see the
authority taking someone's life, then they will think they can do it too. This
is not true, if criminals see that more and more people are getting the death
penalty, this will cause them to think their actions over. The United Kingdom
abolished the death penalty in 1965 and since then, violent crime has more than
doubled.(Matthews,2) The death penalty is not inhumane because it can be done
painlessly and quickly. In most cases when the execution was performed the
process that was most often used was lethal injection. Out of the 314
executions that have taken place since ...

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book of Exodus commands "Thou shall not kill," just three chapters
later in the same book it is advocating "life for life," "eye for eye," and
"tooth for tooth". The death penalty can be justified because it can be done
painlessly, it is actually putting the prisoners out of their misery, and the
prisoner has to deal with the consequences from what they did.
The death penalty also keeps dangerous criminals from ever returning to
the streets again where they can recommit they same crimes. There are criminals
who have been sentenced for 50 years to life in prison but end up getting out
years earlier for good behavior because the prisons are getting so crowded.
When the U.S. Department ...

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