niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
Sent1: If we sentence someone to life in prison, we can always free them at a later time if they are found to be innocent.
 Sent2: If it must be, then we shall find a way to improve these peoples habits, not kill them because they aren't 'like us'.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is useless deterrent of crime because in the states that have them, they are not any more inclined to commit a crime because the threat of death penalty particularly if it is murder.
 Sent2: So, when someone gets the death penalty, they chose their own fate by committing the crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I think that criminals view the death penalty as worse than life imprisonment and worse than temporary solitary confinement within life imprisonment - at least given the conditions in American prisons.
 Sent2: I think it could be proven that putting somebody in prison for life whent ehy have requested the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I think the death penalty is an archaic and obsolete form of punishment, even for the crime of murder.
 Sent2: And no, I don't the death penalty is murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is simply a legally imposed punishment given to felons who commited crimes for which the death penalty is applicable.
 Sent2: Death penalty are given to those who have comitted a very serious crime.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Most other first-world countries don't have the death penalty, but have lower rates of crime, just pointing that out.
 Sent2: The crime rate was higher after the death penalty than before it.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Exactly how many innocent people has the death penalty killed?
 Sent2: My argument is that innocent people have been killed by the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: You make it sound as though if someone is innocent, of anything, they should be killed.
 Sent2: if someone killed you wouldn't you want them dead?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: As long as we sentence people to a life in prison we are also GUARANTEED to sentence an innocent person.
 Sent2: How many people with a life sentence without parole have died an prison and been innocent?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If the justice system is organized and operated correctly, then I believe the death penalty should be used, but it should only be used in very severe cases.
 Sent2: To summarize, I think the death penalty should be used, but only in extreme cases.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The fact remains that life in prison is cheaper than sentencing one to the death penalty.
 Sent2: So your argument is that if the death penalty was cheaper than life in prison it would have the advantage of being cheaper than life in prison.
Output: Similar
Sent1: What does this have to do with the death penalty?
 Sent2: Is it reason to do away with the death penalty?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: There are also people who will tell you that the death penalty actually kills innocent people.
 Sent2: Essentially, you believe a fetus should be allowed to be killed simply for existing, while you protect the lives of people who have murdered other innocent people (as murder is generally what a person will get the death penalty for).
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Capital punishment is killing someone as a punishment for a crime they committed.
 Sent2: So, when someone gets the death penalty, they chose their own fate by committing the crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: You are against of violence, but have you ever thought that death penalty is also violence?
 Sent2: If you think there shouldn't be a death penalty, you're an idiot.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: , I believe the death penalty has deterred at least some people from committing murder.
 Sent2: And no, I don't the death penalty is murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty has been used as a scapegoat for many people who are against executions.
 Sent2: Yes, the death penalty should be use as a punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: So, the question remains, why kill them if you don't need to.
 Sent2: if someone killed you wouldn't you want them dead?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If we don't stop the death penalty now, we will put innocent people to death while we try to fix the problems.
 Sent2: As of yet, we have not seen fact one that even one innocent person has been put to death.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Exactly how many innocent people has the death penalty killed?
 Sent2: some of the innocent people that have been executed in the
Output: Not similar
Sent1: therefore the death penalty should not be used, simply because it kills innocent people.
 Sent2: some of the innocent people that have been executed in the
Output: Similar
Sent1: It is also possible for an innocent person to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, but nobody is making the argument to stop sending people to prison.
 Sent2: How many people with a life sentence without parole have died an prison and been innocent?
Output: Similar
Sent1: The death penalty is not used for what it is supposed to be used for.
 Sent2: I think the death penalty should only be used when there is undeniable proof against the suspect.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I dont think the death penalty should be apllied in just any case.
 Sent2: If that is the case I am against Capital Punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I used to be for the death penalty, however two things made me question my position.
 Sent2: I think the death penalty should only be used in extreme cases where the accused is, without a doubt, guilty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: if you execute a pickpocket or give him life imprisonment, then you would have one less thief to worry about but I think we agree that that would be excessive).
 Sent2: I believe that if person takes the life of another, he should lose his life.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Death penalty does not have a clear and definite criterion.
 Sent2: There shouldn't be a death penalty it isn't fair.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: That doesn't ensure that we don't end up murdering innocent people.
 Sent2: The fact is that as long as we have a death penalty (the only Western nation to have it), we will execute innocents with the guilty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: No the death penalty in not hateful because it is performed due to the fact that he killed someone.
 Sent2: And because Christ forgave the men that unjustly killed him does not conclusivly show that He was against the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: With trials and appeals, one execution can end up costing more than a life sentence by the time the execution is actually carried out.
 Sent2: Life imprisonment without parole is more effective than execution, and it is cheaper.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The "Central Park Jogger" case involved a person who confessed who probably was guilty.
 Sent2: Only in severe cases where there isn't a doubt that the person is guilty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Firstly there has been no proof that an Innocent man has ever been placed on death row.
 Sent2: the use of the death penalty is an act of revenge which cannot be undone, so should the state be put on trial for putting to death an innocent person?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Well one thing for sure the muderer or rapist who is executed will never commit those crimes again........He is permanently deterred........
 Sent2: Also, I wonder if a criminal thinks of the punishment when he commits the crime - if he were counting on being punished, he wouldn't have done it.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: And no, I do not claim that there are trials that can determine innocence after execution...we hold those while they are alive, and before they are sentenced to death.
 Sent2: I suppose you could say "well it keeps them from harming society" but so does the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: By the way, I believe I�۪m correct in saying there has not been an innocent person put to death since 1900.
 Sent2: In any case, while I believe some criminals should just be carried into the street and shot, I don't think the death penalty is worth it in today's society.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I am not a big proponent of the death penalty.
 Sent2: I have a lot of sympathy for ex-convicts, but I still favor the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Although there is much controversy about him, I agree that prisons, especially for those for whom the death penalty could be considered, should be punishment.
 Sent2: Well I, as creator of this debate, think that there should not be a death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: People sentenced to life in prison shouldn't languish in cells, they should be doing something to aid the society they injured.
 Sent2: If the person in question is in prison, they are removed from society.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: A death penalty case is likely to be appealed as high as it will be taken.
 Sent2: Death penalty cases involve a lot of appeals and them lawyers are really expensive.
Output: Similar
Sent1: An argument for putting people to death is so that they can never escape and kill again.
 Sent2: What if there were people killing other people, escaping from jail, doing it again etc.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Although there is much controversy about him, I agree that prisons, especially for those for whom the death penalty could be considered, should be punishment.
 Sent2: I'm sure he's guilty, but I am against the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I don't think preventing the death of more humans is idiocy.
 Sent2: I suppose you could say "well it keeps them from harming society" but so does the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Death is a much kinder sentence than life in prison, if you are sentenced to life, you should get to suffer for the whole bit.
 Sent2: The point is that people who care about you will suffer more if you die than if you are tortured or raped.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Also, within the USA, murder rates are consistently lower in states that don't have capital punishment.
 Sent2: In the United States, states without the death penalty has consistently lower murder rates.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I also don't think someone has been put to death for a third degree murder.
 Sent2: I don't think anyone has been put the death for third degree murder either.
Output: Similar
Sent1: States without the death penalty generally have lower murder rates.
 Sent2: In the United States, states without the death penalty has consistently lower murder rates.
Output: Similar
Sent1: There are many people on this earth who don't deserve to live.
 Sent2: Some people should not have to right to live on earth.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Moreover, states without the death penalty have much lower murder rates.
 Sent2: In the United States, states without the death penalty has consistently lower murder rates.
Output: Similar
Sent1: It is called the death penalty for a reason...it is a penalty, a punishment.
 Sent2: Is it reason to do away with the death penalty?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: States without the death penalty generally have lower murder rates.
 Sent2: Moreover, states without the death penalty have much lower murder rates.
Output: Similar
Sent1: There are many reasons the death penalty should be abolished.
 Sent2: Is it reason to do away with the death penalty?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Both the death penalty and a life sentence would have prevent further murders.
 Sent2: A life sentence does not prevent a murderer from murdering again.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If we can not prevent the innocent from unjust punishment, we should not have the death penalty.
 Sent2: So how about we stop a penalty that has executed innocents?
Output: Similar
Sent1: An eye for an eye won't make the whole world blind if the person never took the eye in the first place.
 Sent2: An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Output: Similar
Sent1: pretty logical... I mean, the killer is not going to take away innocent lives anymore because the killer is dead.
 Sent2: The killer is not going to take away innocent lives anymore because the killer is dead.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Since murder is viewed as wrong, it generally makes more sense to eliminate the death penalty because murder rates are generally lower in those states.
 Sent2: States without the death penalty generally have lower murder rates.
Output: Similar
Sent1: And no, I don't the death penalty is murder.
 Sent2: Though I would not call the death penalty murder, I am personally against it.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Can life imprisonment for a definite yes, prevent a murderer from killing again?
 Sent2: A life sentence does not prevent a murderer from murdering again.
Output: Similar
Sent1: There are many countries with lower murder rates than the U.S. and no death penalty.
 Sent2: States without the death penalty generally have lower murder rates.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I seem to be missing the time when "Jesus Christ told us point blank that capitol punishment was downright evil."
 Sent2: But Jesus Christ told us point blank that capitol punishment was downright evil.
Output: Similar
Sent1: There are many countries with lower murder rates than the U.S. and no death penalty.
 Sent2: Moreover, states without the death penalty have much lower murder rates.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I have been a victim of rape and if I were a victim of murder I would not desire the death penalty for the perpetrator.
 Sent2: And no, I don't the death penalty is murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is not used for what it is supposed to be used for.
 Sent2: Yes, the death penalty should be use as a punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is sometimes claimed to save lives through deterrence.
 Sent2: Many people argue that the death penalty is not a detterence.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: abortion does not qualify as state murder like the death penalty.
 Sent2: I find it rather odd that many of the countries that ban the death penalty allow abortion as if killing a killer is worse than killing an innocent life.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is the only acceptable answer in this case.
 Sent2: The only question is whether or not any risk of executing an innocent is acceptable.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: There is an even smaller chance of an innocent person being sent to prison for the rest of their life, let alone to be convicted of a crime and sent to death.
 Sent2: People who commit bad crimes shouldn't be allowed to suffer in prison for the rest of their life.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: However, I do not see any moral difference in locking up an innocent person for 60 year or executing an innocent person.
 Sent2: So tell me, why do you consider it punishment to lock someone in a cage for the rest of their life (sometimes 60+ years), yet it is automatically revenge to execute them?
Output: Similar
Sent1: In fact mudkipz, many people would prefer the death penalty of life in jail.
 Sent2: On blurtit.com, their is a survey that shows 55% of people would prefer the death penalty to life in jail.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Living in jail for life costs less money then the death penalty.
 Sent2: Morality aside, no evidence of deterrence aside, the death penalty costs more than life imprisonment.
Output: Similar
Sent1: We seem to have more compassion for the victims and potential victims of murderers than we do for the murderers.
 Sent2: If we fail to execute murderers, and doing so would in fact have deterred other murders, we have allowed the killing of a bunch of innocent victims.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty has not been shown to be more effective than life imprisonment in deterring murder, hence we should choose life imprisonment.
 Sent2: In fact mudkipz, many people would prefer the death penalty of life in jail.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: You are probably going to murder somebody; hopefully it will b in a place with the death penalty and then you will get what you deserve.
 Sent2: I highly doubt the backing of why you personally would want the death penalty invoked is because you're worried at home that a mass murderer is going to escape and kill you or someone you love... seriously?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If capital punishment works (deterrent), why do we have such a high murder rate per capita?
 Sent2: In addition, it is evident that the death penalty does not deter murder rates.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If the death penalty deters murder (as you claim) then why does Europe have a lower murder rate even though they've outlawed the death penalty?
 Sent2: If the execution rate decreased and the murder rate increased then that explains the deterrence effect of capital punishment.
Output: Similar
Sent1: So as long as only some innocent people are killed for crimes they didn't commit then the system must be sound.
 Sent2: The government does not have the right to kill people.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If I heard of an innocent stranger being brutally killed, I might want to see the perpetrator suffer because of the suffering of the victim - that is VENGEANCE pure and simple.
 Sent2: I see no point in letting someone live who does not want to live, or letting someone die who does not want to die.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: While I am not against execution, I would rather see tax dollars go to something a bit more useful than trying to execute one person.
 Sent2: With all that it has been a very trying time for me and I have had to struggle with how I really felt about the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: There are many reasons the death penalty should be abolished.
 Sent2: Death penalty should be abolished because i think this method is irreversible.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The death penalty has been found to be a more effective deterrent to crimes against children.
 Sent2: The death penalty executes felons found guilty of especially heinous crimes.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Besides I'm not saying we should apply the death penalty in all instances of murder for example.
 Sent2: Depending on that state's laws, if you're going to apply the death penalty, I find the death penalty appropriately applied to this case.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: In addition, it is evident that the death penalty does not deter murder rates.
 Sent2: 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.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: It wouldn't shock me if someone committed murder JUST to get those things.
 Sent2: I would rather have justice be done than to give a rapist the chance to grab another little girl or a murderer to have the chance to kill an innocent person I might know or care about.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Killing a person for them killing someone else ( I understand this is not necessarily the criteria for receiving the death penalty) makes you no better than the executed.
 Sent2: I don't believe that they should because if you kill someone, they won't have the chance to either get rehabilitated nor will they have the chance to actually regret what they have done.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Well I think that if someone commits a crime worthy of the death penalty they should get a sentence for life that way they can't be a repeat offender.
 Sent2: For that I do not disagree, yes hundreds maybe thousands of people have either been sentenced to death or served a period of time in jail for a crime they did not commit.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: But killing someone because of him killing someone is quite hypocritical.
 Sent2: if a person kills another person it is murder, whether it is sanctioned by the state or not.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If someone keeps killing and killing and killing, we need to stop him from taking lives.
 Sent2: So we kill killers, but in the end, end up with more murders.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The thing is, without the death penalty there is absolutely no deterrent from committing heinous crimes.
 Sent2: The death penalty doesn't need to serve as a deterrent to crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: At least 11 of the cases were not even on death row at the time of their "innocence" discovery.
 Sent2: There has been so much cases of people who have been executed, only to be found innocent after their death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Morally, I do not believe in eye for an eye, because it would leave the whole world blind.
 Sent2: An eye for an eye won't make the whole world blind if the person never took the eye in the first place.
Output: Similar
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: A life sentence does not prevent a murderer from murdering again.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: You cannot kill somebody just because they've broken into your house, you have to have a well founded fear of harm.
 Sent2: if someone killed you wouldn't you want them dead?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: (4)Death penalty does not intimidate people from committing a crime.
 Sent2: I mean that if the death penalty would be legalized, people will scare to commit the crime.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The death penalty is about specific crimes, not any crimes.
 Sent2: The death penalty is simply a legally imposed punishment given to felons who commited crimes for which the death penalty is applicable.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Killing a person for them killing someone else ( I understand this is not necessarily the criteria for receiving the death penalty) makes you no better than the executed.
 Sent2: if someone killed you wouldn't you want them dead?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: One way that would make me happy with the death penalty is if the person was killed in the same way as the person that they murdered.
 Sent2: If a person wasn't convicted then they surely wouldn't be murdered by the state.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is the best possible deterrent for crime.
 Sent2: Death penalty should be allowed as it deters people from committing serious crimes such as murder.
Output: Similar
Sent1: As far as someone killing while in prison, or escaping and killing innocents, I have addressed this too, and have stated that this is part of the reason I support the death penalty.
 Sent2: There is no reason to give that person a death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: We should not even have the death penalty just on the off chance that we might execute somebody who is innocent.
 Sent2: The fact is that as long as we have a death penalty (the only Western nation to have it), we will execute innocents with the guilty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The person having been convicted of a crime punishable by death and subsequently sentenced to death should be put to death.
 Sent2: The death sentence has been used since the beginning of the United States, and rarely, if ever, has there been an occurrence in which someone avenges the death of a murderer or rapist.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I think I could kill someone trying to kill any one of my children.
 Sent2: Someone in my family, honestly I would want that person to take the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Serial killers, "How many people did you kill?"
 Sent2: The government does not have the right to kill people.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: So far, I am hearing "an eye for an eye" which is just that vengeance centered sense of justice that I am arguing against.
 Sent2: What is the REASON behind "an eye for an eye" justice?
Output: Similar
Sent1: I'm also against death penalty because no one except God has the right to take person's life.
 Sent2: I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, I do agree with the death penalty, but why should a child's life be worth more than any adult?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is not used for what it is supposed to be used for.
 Sent2: Only some states use the death penalty, only some countries allow the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Most people would agree that someone who kills someone in self defense doesn't deserve the death penalty, but there have been a couple of recent cases where someone killed someone in revenge for molesting their children.
 Sent2: No letting the family or friends of the victim kill the convicted person might be childish revenge.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Besides I'm not saying we should apply the death penalty in all instances of murder for example.
 Sent2: I think the death penalty should only be used in extreme cases where the accused is, without a doubt, guilty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: For some people death penalty is better than life in prison, who are respect their freedom and who are consider that it is better to die than someone to judge them.
 Sent2: So I think it is better to imprison those who deserve death for life, rather than even once as a people murder the wrong person.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: its a eye for an eye, you might go to their level but you kill someone you should face the death penalty unless they kill in self defence.
 Sent2: if someone killed you wouldn't you want them dead?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is about specific crimes, not any crimes.
 Sent2: The person having been convicted of a crime punishable by death and subsequently sentenced to death should be put to death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The Bible doesn't go against the death penalty, it supports it.
 Sent2: it is quite clear that Jesus did not support the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Roman law said she should be put to death, Jesus said no, that law is wrong.
 Sent2: The death penalty was included in that "law."
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Actually we still kill the wrong person all the time.
 Sent2: How can you justify teaching a generation of children that to stop killers from killing because killing is wrong, we should kill them?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Even the people who did the study saying that innocents had been executed admitted that they cannot prove same.
 Sent2: Especially given that you have accepted that some innocent people are executed.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If we can not prevent the innocent from unjust punishment, we should not have the death penalty.
 Sent2: We should not even have the death penalty just on the off chance that we might execute somebody who is innocent.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Also, within the USA, murder rates are consistently lower in states that don't have capital punishment.
 Sent2: States without the death penalty have fared BETTER in reducing their murder rates than states with the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: People generally think that the death penalty is worse than life without parole (certainly most criminals seem to think so).
 Sent2: Most people who would be deterred already seem to be deterred by life without parole as a punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The truth is that the Death Penalty punishes those who have convicted a crime of extreme severity, not any criminal who commits a crime.
 Sent2: The death penalty executes felons found guilty of especially heinous crimes.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The death penalty is in place to prevent further crimes, not to please the victim's family.
 Sent2: The death of a criminal prevents him from committing any further crimes.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Yes there should be a death penalty but it should only be used in extreme circumstances like treason, mass murder, ordering murders from within prison, and killing someone in prison.
 Sent2: There is no reason to give that person a death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I am glad that you, and now gman, admit that vengeance is the underlying influence.
 Sent2: But, I am glad you didn't let it (revenge) effect you to the point of taking his life yourself.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If we can not prevent the innocent from unjust punishment, we should not have the death penalty.
 Sent2: The fact is that as long as we have a death penalty (the only Western nation to have it), we will execute innocents with the guilty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: So should we be able to impose the sentence of life without parole, all the while understanding that we may have put an innocent man in prison for life?
 Sent2: If we sentence someone to life in prison, we can always free them at a later time if they are found to be innocent.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The reasons given most often for supporting the death penalty are emotional reasons of retribution for the heinous acts of the criminal.
 Sent2: It is called the death penalty for a reason...it is a penalty, a punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If I ever "murder" someone without cause, I would deserve to die.
 Sent2: If a person commits murder, I don't believe they deserve to live.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I don't even give a shit about the death penalty, I was just making a point.
 Sent2: Though I would not call the death penalty murder, I am personally against it.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: One way that would make me happy with the death penalty is if the person was killed in the same way as the person that they murdered.
 Sent2: But I can't get past the fact that they'll be killed for killing someone else - it's hypocritical.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I don't even give a shit about the death penalty, I was just making a point.
 Sent2: I don't think the death penalty should be banned.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: People have, and will, be executed even though they are innocent of the crime.
 Sent2: This process is needed in order to ensure that innocent men and woman are not executed for crimes they did not commit, and even with these protections the risk of executing an innocent person can not be completely eliminated.
Output: Similar
Sent1: People have, and will, be executed even though they are innocent of the crime.
 Sent2: This process is needed in order to ensure that innocent men and woman are not executed for crimes they did not commit, and even with these protections the risk of executing an innocent person can not be completely eliminated."
Output: Similar
Sent1: There is not any good by taking the life of the criminal.
 Sent2: Citizens lives are far more important than the lives of criminals.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I support the death penalty because I feel that their are crimes and criminals so heinous that they deserve death.
 Sent2: I firmly believe that some crimes and criminals are deserving of death.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Since there are many people sentenced for murder that are actually innocent (~10% who were sentenced to death who were proved innocent in appeal), you would be causing a lot more innocent deaths than you would be saving.
 Sent2: There are also people who will tell you that the death penalty actually kills innocent people.
Output: Similar
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: As of yet, we have not seen fact one that even one innocent person has been put to death.
Output: Similar
Sent1: But killing someone because of him killing someone is quite hypocritical.
 Sent2: If someone keeps killing and killing and killing, we need to stop him from taking lives.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: , I believe the death penalty has deterred at least some people from committing murder.
 Sent2: I mean that if the death penalty would be legalized, people will scare to commit the crime.
Output: Similar
Sent1: But killing someone because of him killing someone is quite hypocritical.
 Sent2: But I can't get past the fact that they'll be killed for killing someone else - it's hypocritical.
Output: Similar
Sent1: No the death penalty in not hateful because it is performed due to the fact that he killed someone.
 Sent2: But killing someone because of him killing someone is quite hypocritical.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: some of the innocent people that have been executed in the
 Sent2: My argument is that innocent people have been killed by the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I have evidence that says that innocent people are convicted of crimes.
 Sent2: I agree that the people who are killed are mostly innocent people and that those killed by the death penalty are almost certainly guilty of the crime.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Since there are many people sentenced for murder that are actually innocent (~10% who were sentenced to death who were proved innocent in appeal), you would be causing a lot more innocent deaths than you would be saving.
 Sent2: You need to find lots more for the death penalty to save more lives than innocents that have been executed by it.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Both the death penalty and a life sentence would have prevent further murders.
 Sent2: Can life imprisonment for a definite yes, prevent a murderer from killing again?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: So all in all I believe in the death penalty.
 Sent2: Well, since I believe in that there are crimes and criminals deserving of the death penalty, "tookies" execution served justice in my book.
Output: Similar
Sent1: With all that it has been a very trying time for me and I have had to struggle with how I really felt about the death penalty.
 Sent2: I do not support the death penalty - but it's not because I feel bad for criminals.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I also don't think someone has been put to death for a third degree murder.
 Sent2: To summarize, I think the death penalty should be used, but only in extreme cases.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: When they are about to be shot just think what would be happening, some unlucky person would be dealing with the fact that they were going to have to take someone's life.
 Sent2: Surely keeping someone in a small cell for the rest of their lives and making their life horrible is worse than killing them outright.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I believe that people who have killed, raped, tortured, or have done any other extreme act of violence should get the death penalty.
 Sent2: To summarize, I think the death penalty should be used, but only in extreme cases.
Output: Similar
Sent1: So if we can assume that innocent people are convicted in capital punishment cases, shouldn't we be free to assume that innocent people are being convicted in non-capital punishment cases as well?
 Sent2: In a case like this, we can assume that the alternative is life in prison.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Unless there can be solid uncontestable evidence shown that the death penalty is significant in deterring crime, this cannot be used as an argument for the death penalty.
 Sent2: The death penalty again has not only shown but proved to deter murder so therefore i wpuld suggest you reconsider your closing arguments.
Output: Similar
Sent1: by committing to the idea that someone deserves to die, you are committing to the revenge side of human nature, not the idea of punishment for crimes committed.
 Sent2: If a person is deterred from commiting a crime it is because fear in that person's mind has prevented him from commiting the crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If they know they'll die if caught, they'll likely kill more rape victims and children.
 Sent2: Only .06% of people who have killed kill again when they escape, are released, etc.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I think instead of a death penalty, they should just stay in prison until they die because putting someone to death is just harsh, No matter who it is.
 Sent2: I dont think staying in prison for life is more punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Oh I'm not saying that the govenrment should do away with the death penalty on these grounds, I'm saying that Christian people should oppose it, you said it yourself.
 Sent2: I suppose you could say "well it keeps them from harming society" but so does the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If it has nothing to do with the death penalty, how could it have anything to do with lives saved by the death penalty in the first place?
 Sent2: 1) Virginia: How the death penalty will save money over life without parole (LWOP).
Output: Not similar
Sent1: i think that life without opportunity of parole is the more humane and just punishment instead of the death penalty.
 Sent2: If convicts believe their innocence, appeals through life imprisonment is much more justifiable because it is easier to atone for a life imprisonment as opposed to death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: My mind will not change, when a person is found guilty and given the death penalty it should be carried out promptly, like within six months.
 Sent2: If a jury finds a person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and the death penalty is issued, it should be carried out promptly!
Output: Similar
Sent1: I had asked for 5 examples of innocent people who were executed.
 Sent2: And some people should be thrown away without being executed.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: It seems that there is still a majority in this country who is for the death penalty.
 Sent2: People generally think that the death penalty is worse than life without parole (certainly most criminals seem to think so).
Output: Not similar
Sent1: i think that life without opportunity of parole is the more humane and just punishment instead of the death penalty.
 Sent2: Peterson could face the death penalty or life without parole.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Some people facing the death penalty have been exonerated, sometimes only minutes before their scheduled execution.
 Sent2: There has been so much cases of people who have been executed, only to be found innocent after their death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Even if the death penalty does not deter serial killers, it prevents them from killing again in society or in prison.
 Sent2: IE - the death penalty acts as a deterrent to other would be murderers.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: What we need are harsher sentences including the death penalty.
 Sent2: The death penalty doesn't need to become more equalized.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Actually we still kill the wrong person all the time.
 Sent2: That right to life was taken away, I agree, but we will not accomplish anything if we kill someone else.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Even if the death penalty does not deter serial killers, it prevents them from killing again in society or in prison.
 Sent2: Can life imprisonment for a definite yes, prevent a murderer from killing again?
Output: Similar
Sent1: The death penalty is also based on rationality of murder.
 Sent2: If murder is wrong than so is the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The problem with the death penalty is eventually someone will be sentenced to death when they are in fact guilty.
 Sent2: The notion that innocent people may be sentenced to death is not a death penalty problem, it is a judicial system problem.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I think that criminals view the death penalty as worse than life imprisonment and worse than temporary solitary confinement within life imprisonment - at least given the conditions in American prisons.
 Sent2: I dont think staying in prison for life is more punishment.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If murder is wrong than so is the death penalty.
 Sent2: Death penalty is then in this case a lawful murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty has not been shown to be more effective than life imprisonment in deterring murder, hence we should choose life imprisonment.
 Sent2: But the statistics don't support the idea that the death penalty is any more effective as a detterent than is a life sentence.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I do not think that a government should be unable to kill someone, simply that they almost always should not.
 Sent2: I'm not saying that a child's life is worth more than an adults, I'm saying if they killed any one they forfeit their life, because they in return lose what they took from someone else.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The people who qualify for the death penalty are charged with committing some considerably heinous crime(s) that society has deemed unacceptable.
 Sent2: (4)Death penalty does not intimidate people from committing a crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: As far as the deterrent argument, I have said this before, and I will say it again: There is no accurate way to measure if the death penalty is deterring crime or not.
 Sent2: Like I said, I don't disagree with the theory of the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty has not been shown to be more effective than life imprisonment in deterring murder, hence we should choose life imprisonment.
 Sent2: Can life imprisonment for a definite yes, prevent a murderer from killing again?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: It's been determined the death penalty is economically inefficient and I have yet to see any solid statistics displaying a defined deterrent factor.
 Sent2: The way I see it, capital punishment doesn't have to be expensive at all.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is sometimes claimed to save lives through deterrence.
 Sent2: Bleeding hearts will not accept the fact that the death penalty is a deterrent and saves innocent lives.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Sorry for the length of the post, but I hope it helps you understand why I oppose capital punishment.
 Sent2: If you accept vengeance as a reason for punishment then I understand why you would support the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: the use of the death penalty is an act of revenge which cannot be undone, so should the state be put on trial for putting to death an innocent person?
 Sent2: There are some who need to be put to death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: What is the REASON behind "an eye for an eye" justice?
 Sent2: An eye for an eye won't make the whole world blind if the person never took the eye in the first place.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I think only certain people deserve to have the death penalty.
 Sent2: I don't feel as strongly about the death penalty as I feel about the abortion rights debate since I can relate to the desire for vengeance that people feel.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Personally, I've a big problem with the death penalty, namely that it has been applied to entirely innocent people.
 Sent2: The biggest problem I have with the death penalty is the cost.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Louisiana, a state with the death penalty and the highest murder rate in the country, has almost no gun control.
 Sent2: The first twenty states with higher murder rates all have the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Someone in my family, honestly I would want that person to take the death penalty.
 Sent2: I see no point in letting someone live who does not want to live, or letting someone die who does not want to die.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: After all, the person you're torturing may actually be innocent.
 Sent2: Essentially, you believe a fetus should be allowed to be killed simply for existing, while you protect the lives of people who have murdered other innocent people (as murder is generally what a person will get the death penalty for).
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Besides I'm not saying we should apply the death penalty in all instances of murder for example.
 Sent2: I assume in what follows that we, the country or the state, execute only for the crime of murder, though many capital punishment adherents would use it for other crimes, such as child rape, treason, arson, robbery and even fraud.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Besides I'm not saying we should apply the death penalty in all instances of murder for example.
 Sent2: If these are indeed comparable, I wouldn't argue for the death penalty even in murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: There is no way to determine how many murders would have been committed.
 Sent2: if someone commits any crime, then they are a criminal by definition and should die.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The fact is that as long as we have a death penalty (the only Western nation to have it), we will execute innocents with the guilty.
 Sent2: I cannot compare numbers with other western countries since we are the only one with capital punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty again, in giving punishing the offender sends out a message to others that no one should kill or hurt another person which will thus serve to deter other potential killers.
 Sent2: The deterrent of the death penalty cannot be directed at the executed, but does put fear in the minds of other potential capital criminals.
Output: Similar
Sent1: It would never have began had the murderer not committed his deed.
 Sent2: The death of a criminal prevents him from committing any further crimes.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: People use the argument that we should not execute people based on the possibility that they may be innocent, but they could care less if we lock someone up for life who may be innocent.
 Sent2: If they don't want to kill an innocent person, stick to life in prison.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Most people would agree that someone who kills someone in self defense doesn't deserve the death penalty, but there have been a couple of recent cases where someone killed someone in revenge for molesting their children.
 Sent2: "by not killing those who deserve it"....do rape victims deserve it?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Many people find some crimes heinous enough to warrent the death penalty.
 Sent2: Over 40 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes since 1990.
Output: Not similar
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 know for a FACT that innocent people have been put to death already"- then give me their names.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is the only just punishment for their actions.
 Sent2: There has been so much cases of people who have been executed, only to be found innocent after their death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: So how about we stop a penalty that has executed innocents?
 Sent2: By the same token, if we keep administering the death penalty while the system is broken, we will have a much greater risk of putting someone innocent to death.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Because justice operates to protect society by deterring future crime, one would have to show that the death penalty prevents more crime than life in prison, thus fulfilling the function of justice better than that of life in prison.
 Sent2: And no, society is not better served by life imprisonment than the death penalty because society then learns that consequences aren't very severe for committing an act of murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I see what you mean, but i'm still against killing people .
 Sent2: Point out how many executions are taking place per year and compared to that the murder rate and tell me what you are seeing.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: This is why I'm aganist the penalty as punishment.
 Sent2: I'm pro-death penalty because there is no atonement for murder.
Output: Similar
Sent1: But as long as they are only options, I support the criminals right to choose that particular method.
 Sent2: Again, I support the death penalty for certain crimes and criminals.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Unless there can be solid uncontestable evidence shown that the death penalty is significant in deterring crime, this cannot be used as an argument for the death penalty.
 Sent2: Therefore the argument of death as a deterent is a joke.
Output: Similar
Sent1: In all honesty im glad i am not someone who has to decide murder as punishment for someone who has committed crimes.
 Sent2: So, when someone gets the death penalty, they chose their own fate by committing the crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is the best possible deterrent for crime.
 Sent2: The death penalty has been found to be a more effective deterrent to crimes against children.
Output: Similar
Sent1: From what I have read, there has been no conclusive evidence of an innocent person killed by the death penalty since 1900.
 Sent2: I have evidence that says that innocent people are convicted of crimes.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty doesn't reverse the death of the victim.
 Sent2: What does this have to do with the death penalty?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: So all in all I believe in the death penalty.
 Sent2: I firmly believe that some crimes and criminals are deserving of death.
Output: Similar
Sent1: What does this have to do with the death penalty?
 Sent2: The death penalty was included in that "law."
Output: Not similar
Sent1: This is why I'm aganist the penalty as punishment.
 Sent2: I'm more aganist the penalty because it costs so damn much over life.
Output: Similar