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We would like you to assess the QUALITY of each of the following argument (discussing Death Penalty) and determine if the argument is Valid or Invalid. A valid argument is clearly interpretable and either expresses an argument, or a premise or a conclusion that can be used in an argument for the topic of death penalty. An invalid argument is a phrase that cannot be interpreted as an argument or not on the topic of death penalty.
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What gets little notice, however, is a series of academic studies over the last half-dozen years that claim to settle a once hotly debated argument ��� whether the death penalty acts as a deterrent to murder.
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Valid


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You're right about the first part (which only further proves my point), and you're horribly WRONG about the second.
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Invalid


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I believe that people who have killed, raped, tortured, or have done any other extreme act of violence should get the death penalty.
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Valid