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We would like you to classify each of the following sets of argument pairs (discussing Death Penalty)  into either SIMILAR or NOT SIMILAR. A pair of arguments is considered SIMILAR if the arguments are about the same FACET (making the same argument), and is considered NOT SIMILAR if they do not have the same FACET. A FACET is a low level issue that often reoccurs in many arguments in support of the author's stance or in attacking the other author's position.
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Sent1: In every state that retains the death penalty, jurors have the option of sentencing convicted capital murderers to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
 Sent2: Acutally, long ago, the executioner was a convict also sentenced to death.
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Not similar


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Sent1: Louisiana, a state with the death penalty and the highest murder rate in the country, has almost no gun control.
 Sent2: States without the death penalty generally have lower murder rates.
answer:
Similar


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Sent1: At one time the death penalty made sense and was in that respect moral.
 Sent2: The flawed sense in the Death Penalty may be the lack of ethical principals, but it has improved over time.
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Not similar