TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: Sent1: If you apply that cost to the rest of the nation�۪s executions, the nation has spent over $1 billion on capital punishment since the reinstatement of the penalty via Gregg vs. Georgia in 1976.
 Sent2: On a national basis, these figures translate to an extra cost of over $1 billion spent since 1976 on the death penalty.

SOLUTION: Similar

PROBLEM: Sent1: Currently, the death penalty is lawful in the US, therefore it cannot be defined as murder.
 Sent2: Death penalty is then in this case a lawful murder.

SOLUTION: Similar

PROBLEM: Sent1: Capital punishment frees up jail cells: Considering how few people we execute and how many new people enter the prison system each year, I do not see this as being a very good argument.
 Sent2: Well I, as creator of this debate, think that there should not be a death penalty.

SOLUTION:
Not similar