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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: Also, within the USA, murder rates are consistently lower in states that don't have capital punishment.
 Sent2: States without the death penalty generally have lower murder rates.
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Similar


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Sent1: Given the scrutiny of death penalty cases, it seems that we would be more likely to lock someone up for life in prison and never uncover their innocence than we are to execute an innocent person.
 Sent2: We should not even have the death penalty just on the off chance that we might execute somebody who is innocent.
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Not similar


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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: Both the death penalty and a life sentence would have prevent further murders.
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Not similar