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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: Most other first-world countries don't have the death penalty, but have lower rates of crime, just pointing that out.
 Sent2: Also, within the USA, murder rates are consistently lower in states that don't have capital punishment.
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Similar


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Sent1: If there was another factor associated with the increase in the murder rate and not the death penalty, then the article itself would have pointed it out.
 Sent2: Well according to your own paper, it says that you can't prove that the death penalty increases the murder rate.
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Similar


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Sent1: Some innocent people are still sentenced to death, and that's where I see a problem.
 Sent2: The notion that innocent people may be sentenced to death is not a death penalty problem, it is a judicial system problem.
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Not similar