niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
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 don't think everyone should be put to death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The question with the death penalty is not kill or give no punishment.
 Sent2: God gave to government the legitimate authority to use capital punishment to restrain murder and to punish murderers.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: We let killers out of prison so they can kill again.
 Sent2: If we kill our criminals, we see no opertunity for them to right their ways.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If capital punishment works (deterrent), why do we have such a high murder rate per capita?
 Sent2: If the death penalty were an adequate deterrent then we would not have murder.
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: People have, and will, be executed even though they are innocent of the crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: It seems that those that would be deterred by fear of punishment are already dettered by the threat of a life sentence.
 Sent2: Most people who would be deterred already seem to be deterred by life without parole as a punishment.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Also, within the USA, murder rates are consistently lower in states that don't have capital punishment.
 Sent2: There are many countries with lower murder rates than the U.S. and no death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: It seems that you're assuming the correlation between crime rate and countries with capital punishment is that the death penalty encourages crime.
 Sent2: You can't just assume the death penalty is a crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If murder is wrong than so is the death penalty.
 Sent2: Murder is murder and those who execute the death penalty are murderers as well.
Output: 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 makes the whole world blind.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Texas has the most executions and the most murders as well.
 Sent2: Murder is murder and those who execute the death penalty are murderers as well.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Historically, the death penalty has not had any effect on crime.
 Sent2: That should be a crime which should result in the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The crime rate was higher after the death penalty than before it.
 Sent2: BUT it is not apparent that death penalty lower crime rate.
Output: 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: I say that they should be killed the same way that the person(s) that they killed were.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Only if they try to murder somebody after they are in prison do they deserve the death penalty?
 Sent2: Capital punishment is killing someone as a punishment for a crime they committed.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I see what you mean, but i'm still against killing people .
 Sent2: I find it quite strange that no one bothered to ask why you why are against killing people...
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I believe that murder is the killing of a human being.
 Sent2: I think it is philosophically and morally justified to execute anyone who has murdered another human being.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I'm not really in favor of killing innocent people either.
 Sent2: But I oppose the death penalty because it has the capacity to kill innocent people.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: What does this have to do with the death penalty?
 Sent2: Yes, the death penalty should be use as a punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The thing is, without the death penalty there is absolutely no deterrent from committing heinous crimes.
 Sent2: There is absolutely ZERO evidence that the death penalty deters crime.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Exactly how many innocent people has the death penalty killed?
 Sent2: There are also people who will tell you that the death penalty actually kills innocent people.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The death penalty has never been shown to be a deterent to murder.
 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: So all in all I believe in the death penalty.
 Sent2: I believe there are certain crimes where the death penalty is an acceptable punishment.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I don't think the death penalty should be banned.
 Sent2: The death penalty right now is to easy even I think.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: But are there any stats available showing countries/states with the death penalty have a higher/lower crime rate?
 Sent2: studies show that the death penalty is not a deterrent (which is one half of the reason for it's use) and murder rates are actually higher in states that have the death penalty have-had-consistently-lower-murder-rates#stateswithvwithout).
Output: Similar
Sent1: 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.
 Sent2: Life imprisonment without parole is more effective than execution, and it is cheaper.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: And that killer has help, he has the people that support the death penalty and will give him more appeals, and if found guilty he'll get an easy way out with death, he won't have to suffer.
 Sent2: Ask the family members of who he killed if he deserves death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: You are against of violence, but have you ever thought that death penalty is also violence?
 Sent2: As far as I know, you may as well ACTUALLY believe any number of things, if you actually believe in 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: Life imprisonment without parole is more effective than execution, and it is cheaper.
Output: Similar
Sent1: what you are saying is that we should murder people because the prisons are overcrowded.
 Sent2: You say that all people who commit gruesome murders are psychopaths.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I do not think that a government should be unable to kill someone, simply that they almost always should not.
 Sent2: If a person wasn't convicted then they surely wouldn't be murdered by the state.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I am very conservative and I am opposed to abortion and the death penalty.
 Sent2: So I'm completely up front about it, I am adamently opposed to the death penalty period.
Output: Similar
Sent1: You are against of violence, but have you ever thought that death penalty is also violence?
 Sent2: I feel as though you're implying that the death penalty is an effective crime deterrent.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: It wouldn't shock me if someone committed murder JUST to get those things.
 Sent2: Oh, and by the way, the criteria that I mentioned earlier was enough to kill someone for treason, so why shouldn't it be enough to kill someone for another crime?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Only .06% of people who have killed kill again when they escape, are released, etc.
 Sent2: They support it because killing murderers is the right thing to do.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: But why do you have to get rid of them by killing them.
 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: Historically, the death penalty has not had any effect on crime.
 Sent2: The crimes meriting the death penalty are by-and-large not commited by those considering the consequences, no matter what those consequences may be.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is gives the ability to off killers and murderers, as, if they were given life in parole, they have the ability to escape and continue their crimes.
 Sent2: They support it because killing murderers is the right thing to do.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Some innocent people are still sentenced to death, and that's where I see a problem.
 Sent2: All of the death penalty oppontents are for life in jail as opposed to the death penalty.I am sure that if some are found innocent,there are at least that many that are innocent and never set free.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Serial killers, "How many people did you kill?"
 Sent2: By killing a person who murdered someone, you are just doing the same thing you are punishing him/her for.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If somebody is completely innocent and they are executed for a crime they didn't commit (which, with forensics these days, probably will never happen again), that is a problem.
 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: If somebody is completely innocent and they are executed for a crime they didn't commit (which, with forensics these days, probably will never happen again), that is a problem.
 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: That doesn't ensure that we don't end up murdering innocent people.
 Sent2: So in reality, pushing the death penalty only ensures that more innocent people will be murdered.
Output: Similar
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.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I know the eye for an eye statement is wrong.
 Sent2: I do believe in the death Penalty, eye for and eye.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I'm sure he's guilty, but I am against the death penalty.
 Sent2: I do not support the death penalty - but it's not because I feel bad for criminals.
Output: Similar
Sent1: There is absolutely ZERO evidence that the death penalty deters crime.
 Sent2: I am pro-death penalty even though I conceed that every study I have seen suggests it does absolutely nothing to deter capitol crimes.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Criminals need to be punished for what they have done.
 Sent2: I think that if the murderer wants the death penalty, they should be allowed it if the victim's family agrees- but for crimes of passion and misunderstanding, no death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: An argument regarding the death penalty should be confined to discussions regarding those who have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to death.
 Sent2: The point is, when a crime is committed that warrants the death penalty and there is irrefutable evidence to suggest that the personal being held responsible is guilty, than they should be sentenced to death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I have evidence that says that innocent people are convicted of crimes.
 Sent2: There have been numerous people who were presumed innocent after execution because the evidence showed that they were not guilty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: And some people should be thrown away without being executed.
 Sent2: So between 336 to 672 innocent people  have staistically been excecuted since Gregg Vs Georgia took place.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Is the victim going to come back that the criminal is dead?
 Sent2: The killer is not going to take away innocent lives anymore because the killer is dead.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The abolishment of the death penalty is considered an advancement in most societies.
 Sent2: There are many reasons the death penalty should be abolished.
Output: Similar
Sent1: i think that life without opportunity of parole is the more humane and just punishment instead of the death penalty.
 Sent2: 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.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If we continue to allow the death penalty, we are no better than the murderers and rapists that we punish with the death penalty.
 Sent2: There should no be a death penalty, since by taking a human's life, we are not saving it.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: This is about pro-life views and their compatibility with pro-death penalty views.
 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: Like I said I would just want them to actually have to deal with the consequences and not get an easy out, which is what executing them does.
 Sent2: I say kill 'em, they're a waste of the federal budget.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Society today allows the criminal more rights than the victims.
 Sent2: The need to keep society safe from a criminal via encarceration balanced with the rights of the criminal against excessive punishment (ex.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I see the death penalty primarily as a show of power and ownership by the state.
 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: IMHO, if we have the confidence in our system to throw someone in a cage for the rest of their natural life we should have the same confidence to put someone to death.
 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: Not 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: Deterrence is not the only reason I support the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I have heard of two instances of innocent men who were executed back in the seventies.
 Sent2: Also, Texas has executed persons who were, in fact, innocent.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I used to be for the death penalty, however two things made me question my position.
 Sent2: I guess the question begs to be asked to my friends on the left is If life in prisonment is so much worse then the death penalty why do you think most prisoners on death row would choose that option?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Almost every study I've seen on the deterrent effect of the death penalty has suggested that it's no more effective than life imprisonment.
 Sent2: studies show that the death penalty is not a deterrent (which is one half of the reason for it's use) and murder rates are actually higher in states that have the death penalty have-had-consistently-lower-murder-rates#stateswithvwithout).
Output: Similar
Sent1: The death penalty has never been shown to be a deterent to murder.
 Sent2: There is absolutely ZERO evidence that the death penalty deters crime.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The death penalty is an effective deterrent when used properly.
 Sent2: Yes, the death penalty should be use as a punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: States without the death penalty have fared BETTER in reducing their murder rates than states with the death penalty.
 Sent2: States without the death penalty generally have lower murder rates.
Output: Similar
Sent1: 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.
 Sent2: As of yet, we have not seen fact one that even one innocent person has been put to death.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I'm not really in favor of killing innocent people either.
 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: 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 do not support the death penalty - but it's not because I feel bad for 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: 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.
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: Same with the others, if they are in solitary and they succeed in killing someone else , death penalty then fine.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: You are against of violence, but have you ever thought that death penalty is also violence?
 Sent2: You can't just assume the death penalty is a crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty was included in that "law."
 Sent2: Either do that or do away with the law that says that death is the proper penalty to pay for the crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: some of the innocent people that have been executed in the
 Sent2: There is no way that I believe it is okay to execute innocent people because of a flawed system.
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: Moreover, states without the death penalty have much lower murder rates.
Output: Similar
Sent1: However, I think that the government needs to provide undeinable proof of their guilt in order to be able to sentence someone to death.
 Sent2: I think the death penalty should only be used when there is undeniable proof against the suspect.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I think there should be a death penalty because, all those innocent people getting killed for no damn reason is unfair.
 Sent2: But I oppose the death penalty because it has the capacity to kill innocent people.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Life without parole costs the justice system WAAAY less than death penalty cases do.
 Sent2: Living in jail for life costs less money then the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If we execute death penalty, we will not be better than murderers.
 Sent2: Murder is murder and those who execute the death penalty are murderers as well.
Output: 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: If you get a life sentence, you shouldn't have any choices whatsoever.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If you accept vengeance as a reason for punishment then I understand why you would support the death penalty.
 Sent2: As far as I know, you may as well ACTUALLY believe any number of things, if you actually believe in the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: But I oppose the death penalty because it has the capacity to kill innocent people.
 Sent2: therefore the death penalty should not be used, simply because it kills innocent people.
Output: Similar
Sent1: No person has ever escaped a maximum security prison in the history of maximum security prisons.
 Sent2: For those who say "we need to make sure they don't kill again" no one in the history of maximum security prisons has ever escaped a maximum security prison, so it's not really an issue.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Societal punishment ought to be adjudicated by members of that society who have been offended or done violence to.
 Sent2: the death penalty also is premediated murder,it demeans the state and makes society more violent!
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Is the victim going to come back that the criminal is dead?
 Sent2: OF THE VICTIM would be able to visit or at least know they're family members are alive if the criminal hadn't KILLED THEM!!
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is an absolute judiciary measure that succeeds in rectifying the grievances of the murder victim's family and peers, yet fails to undo an inevitable flaw of any judiciary system; human error.
 Sent2: The death penalty doesn't reverse the death of the victim.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Also, Texas has executed persons who were, in fact, innocent.
 Sent2: The death penalty is not deterrance for the person executed.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Life incarceration will never let him kill again, and its cheaper.
 Sent2: It costs far more to execute a person than to keep him or her in prison for life.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Point out how many executions are taking place per year and compared to that the murder rate and tell me what you are seeing.
 Sent2: Well according to your own paper, it says that you can't prove that the death penalty increases the murder rate.
Output: Similar
Sent1: We could get the person who may kill in the future.
 Sent2: We should not even have the death penalty just on the off chance that we might execute somebody who is innocent.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: You think that just because an innocent man is set free after having had to go through the gauntlet the system works?
 Sent2: After all, the person you're torturing may actually be innocent.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If they know they'll die if caught, they'll likely kill more rape victims and children.
 Sent2: You do realize that if they do murder somebody while they are in prison, it will most likely be another prisoner, since the guards are armed?
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: 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?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I think the deterent benefit of capitol punishment is far too valuable to throw away for rare instances of innocents being executed.
 Sent2: If that is the case I am against Capital Punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: So you think that someone who has claimed the life of someone else deserves the comfortable environment of a prison?
 Sent2: the prisons are overcrowded as it and why prolong someones life who took someone elses i mean they don't deserve to live out there life.
Output: 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: You need to find lots more for the death penalty to save more lives than innocents that have been executed by it.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Death penalty is lawful (in some states) because a majority of the people has agreed to give the justice system the power to kill with our permission.
 Sent2: The majority populations of all countries may support the death penalty for some crimes (1).
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The argument for the death penalty as a deterrent has been proved wrong by the implementation of it through history.
 Sent2: Furthermore, any assertion that the death penalty is not a deterrent is false.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Since there is no clear evidence indicating that there is any deterrent value to the death penalty, I have trouble rationalizing it as a punishment.
 Sent2: 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.
Output: Similar
Sent1: it is quite clear that Jesus did not support the death penalty.
 Sent2: Jesus did NOT make it clear the death penalty was wrong, he made it clear that personal revenge is wrong.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Life without parole lets you fix that mistake since they can be released if they are found innocent - not so with the death penalty.
 Sent2: You need to find lots more for the death penalty to save more lives than innocents that have been executed by it.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: That doesn't ensure that we don't end up murdering innocent people.
 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: Like I said I would just want them to actually have to deal with the consequences and not get an easy out, which is what executing them does.
 Sent2: I say if they try to kill/escape from life w/o parole in prison that's all we should need for the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Yeah, including the human judgment that says that the death penalty is wrong.
 Sent2: Justice is applying a penalty or punishment for a wrong deed done.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Someone in my family, honestly I would want that person to take the death penalty.
 Sent2: If someone killed my relative, I wouldn't want them killed, I would want them to spend the rest of their lives in hard, back breaking labor.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Like I said I would just want them to actually have to deal with the consequences and not get an easy out, which is what executing them does.
 Sent2: I suppose you could say "well it keeps them from harming society" but so does the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: 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.
 Sent2: In the case of the death penalty, the crime committed is so terrible that society is no longer concerned with teaching a lesson; they simply want to be free of these terrible criminals.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I am personally against the death penalty but would like to know in this particular scenario how just giving him life in prison would have been any different.
 Sent2: I personally would never wish death penalty on someone no matter what they did to me/family/friends I would just want them in jail for a life sentence because then the threat is pretty much over.
Output: Similar
Sent1: An argument regarding the death penalty should be confined to discussions regarding those who have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to death.
 Sent2: Arguments that support the death penalty are the only ones that can reference the Constitution.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: You say that all people who commit gruesome murders are psychopaths.
 Sent2: Hitler killed a whole race, you are basically saying you don't mind if we kill a bunch of innocent people as long as we get guilty people as well.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: maybe we should start with what crimes warrant the death penalty.
 Sent2: Could it be that people are going to commit the crimes anyway no matter what the punishment is, so the sentence we pass should be sufficient to prevent reoffending only.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If I could be satisfactorily convinced that a murderer had ZERO chance of committing another crime, I might be convinced to do away with the death penalty.
 Sent2: Some crimes are so heinous that the person who committed the crime deserves to die: I would only agree to this if the execution erased the crime that was committed in the first place.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: We seem to have more compassion for the victims and potential victims of murderers than we do for the murderers.
 Sent2: By not giving the death penalty to a slaughtering murderer, we are telling the world that the life of this murderer is worth more than that of his victim.
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: The death penalty (because of appeals) costs more than solitary confinement for life, both of which would ensure that the person would never kill again.
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: The list of men on death row who were found to be innocent and released is long and growing, and we can only guess how many innocents have been put to death.
Output: Similar
Sent1: We must look into why the person raped a child or murdered a father.
 Sent2: One of the many grievances I have is that child rapists don't qualify for the death penalty unless the child that gets raped is also killed.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Without fear of punishment, some people cannot be controlled.
 Sent2: I suppose that, for most people, having to serve a life sentence without parole would already ruin their life enough that any who would be detered by fear of punishment are already detered.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: When a person commits a crime, the Judicial system is responsible for determining a proportional response or penalty for the crime.
 Sent2: No, if it is already known that this person made the crime, the death penalty may be used.
Output: Not 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: I am tired of seeing people on death row for 20 or 30 years before they are put to death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Even though you deny it, your statements show you have no problem executing innocent people.
 Sent2: Well according to your own paper, it says that you can't prove that the death penalty increases the murder rate.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: In fact I'll go a step further and state that we're too lax with the death penalty, we need to make it more severe.
 Sent2: What we need are harsher sentences including the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: maybe we should start with what crimes warrant the death penalty.
 Sent2: politicaly correct death penalty we impose here in America may not deter crime as well as we think it should.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If a criminal asks for the death penalty, give them a psychiatric evaluation to determine their mental state.
 Sent2: Still, in some cases death penalty would be the right thing to do (no point keeping mentally insane murderers just locked up for their whole life, although there could be some ways to use them).
Output: Not similar
Sent1: i think the death penalty should be abolished because some people are sentenced to deathfor a crime they might have not committed.
 Sent2: 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.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: >>>If we are sure they raped & killed those innocent children then we should let them die.
 Sent2: We let killers out of prison so they can kill again.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If someone is bad enough to be considered for the death penalty then they must have had sure evidence that they are guilty if they are then they shouldn't deserve the right to live among people they could kill
 Sent2: Capital punishment is killing someone as a punishment for a crime they committed.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I don't think anyone has been put the death for third degree murder either.
 Sent2: This is why I said what I said in the first place about why I'm against the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty has been found to be a more effective deterrent to crimes against children.
 Sent2: I feel as though you're implying that the death penalty is an effective crime deterrent.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The moral law, speaking through my conscience has no problem with the death penalty.
 Sent2: My conscience says that it the death penalty is immoral.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If these bleak prospects aren't enough to deter someone from committing a serious crime, what will ramping it up to the death penalty do?
 Sent2: Death penalty are given to those who have comitted a very serious crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Even the people who did the study saying that innocents had been executed admitted that they cannot prove same.
 Sent2: There have been numerous people who were presumed innocent after execution because the evidence showed that they were not guilty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Therefore, the Death Penalty stands as a humane form of justice.
 Sent2: The question is should the death penalty be allowed as a form of punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Death penalty should be allowed as it deters people from committing serious crimes such as murder.
 Sent2: If these bleak prospects aren't enough to deter someone from committing a serious crime, what will ramping it up to the death penalty do?
Output: Not similar
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.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: i think the death penalty should be abolished because some people are sentenced to deathfor a crime they might have not committed.
 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: Similar
Sent1: If capital punishment works (deterrent), why do we have such a high murder rate per capita?
 Sent2: The crime rate was higher after the death penalty than before it.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I'm against captial punishment for the reasons that wjim1269 gave and also I think that just because someone murders someone it doesn't mean they should automatically forfeit their own life.
 Sent2: If a person commits murder, I don't believe they deserve to live.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If murder is wrong than so is the death penalty.
 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: The death penalty has been used as a scapegoat for many people who are against executions.
 Sent2: Only some states use the death penalty, only some countries allow the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is also based on rationality of murder.
 Sent2: Murder is murder and those who execute the death penalty are murderers as well.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: ...and if I do someday murder someone, I should be killed.
 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 used to be for the death penalty, however two things made me question my position.
 Sent2: I am not sure, which also begs the question on my support for the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Some people totally deserve the death penalty and I would hate it if they were released.
 Sent2: What does them being released have to do with the death penalty?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The question with the death penalty is not kill or give no punishment.
 Sent2: God specifically gives the government permission to punish murderers by death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Because we are all potential victims of violent crime, and I believe that there are violent crimes deserving of the death penalty.
 Sent2: I'm not saying we shouldn't do anything for the victims.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: abortion does not qualify as state murder like the death penalty.
 Sent2: Yes, death penalty is not a qualified punishment for a crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I'm also against death penalty because no one except God has the right to take person's life.
 Sent2: So if someone cared more about money then the life of the prisoner (as I do), they'd be aganist the current form of the penalty in America.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: We could get the person who may kill in the future.
 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: And that killer has help, he has the people that support the death penalty and will give him more appeals, and if found guilty he'll get an easy way out with death, he won't have to suffer.
 Sent2: Think of the torment in the families minds,knowing that that killer is doing everything he can to get out.And that killer has help,he has the people that want to ban the death penalty!!!!!
Output: Similar
Sent1: They support it because killing murderers is the right thing to do.
 Sent2: that is why I support it for serial killers, I don't really support it for a murderer.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The antepenultimate man to be sentenced to death was innocent.
 Sent2: while it is a fact that innocent people have been placed and convicted to death row condemned to die, there are however people who are guilty and should die.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The question with the death penalty is not kill or give no punishment.
 Sent2: The debate question asks "Should the death penalty be legalized?"
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Especially given that you have accepted that some innocent people are executed.
 Sent2: 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.
Output: Similar
Sent1: As long as we sentence people to a life in prison we are also GUARANTEED to sentence an innocent person.
 Sent2: Back to reality, we convict the wrong person all the time, and we've set up a system where death penalty is actually more expensive than life in prison.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Many people find some crimes heinous enough to warrent the death penalty.
 Sent2: (4)Death penalty does not intimidate people from committing a crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If I ever "murder" someone without cause, I would deserve to die.
 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: I am not disagreeing with punishing criminals for crimes they have committed.
 Sent2: I support the death penalty because I feel that their are crimes and criminals so heinous that they deserve death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: But I can't get past the fact that they'll be killed for killing someone else - it's hypocritical.
 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: I don't care if it is in the name of justice or if someone just wants to avenge a death, murder is murder, no matter how it is done.
 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: I don't even give a shit about the death penalty, I was just making a point.
 Sent2: I think there should be a death penalty because, all those innocent people getting killed for no damn reason is unfair.
Output: Not 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: You make it sound as though if someone is innocent, of anything, they should be killed.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If you support the death penalty and concede that an innocent man could be put to death, you must be willing to put your name in the hat, with every one else, to have the government execute you by mistake.
 Sent2: of course, if you refuse to call and die in your sins, then you've executed the death penalty upon yourself.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I see what you mean, but i'm still against killing people .
 Sent2: 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.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is an act of justice, yes justice, which while unable to supplement for the losses of others, can secure the isolation of a convicted criminal and also deliver a punishment for the crime.
 Sent2: The death penalty executes felons found guilty of especially heinous crimes.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: There are many reasons the death penalty should be abolished.
 Sent2: If anything, this kind of "argument" is an argument for abolishing the death penalty, since it isn't used uniformly across the entire country.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The death penalty is in place to prevent further crimes, not to please the victim's family.
 Sent2: And the purpose of the death penalty is not to punish, but to deter further crime.
Output: Similar
Sent1: So what does he have to do with a debate like this about murderers and the death penalty?
 Sent2: C: The main CON argument against capital punishment is that he should have second chance.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: In all cases, the first punishment shouldn't be the death penalty.
 Sent2: If that is the case I am against Capital Punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is sometimes claimed to save lives through deterrence.
 Sent2: The death penalty is not about only deterrence, but also to say that life will be protected and murder will not be tolerated.
Output: 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: I have heard that there are false verdicts and that some innocent people are killed accidentally, but that number is decreasing year by year.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I'm not really in favor of killing innocent people either.
 Sent2: The government does not have the right to kill people.
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: There should no be a death penalty, since by taking a human's life, we are not saving it.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Deterrence is not the only reason I support the death penalty.
 Sent2: The reason to be for the death penalty is because it is just; the same foundation of support for all sanctions.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: States without the death penalty have fared BETTER in reducing their murder rates than states with 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: Second, he killed someone during the commission of another crime.
 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: Not to mention that the death penalty is more costly than simple life in prison in both money and time.
 Sent2: First, it is more expensive than sentencing someone to life in prison.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Ask the family members of who he killed if he deserves death.
 Sent2: Think of the torment in the families minds,knowing that that killer is doing everything he can to get out.And that killer has help,he has the people that want to ban the death penalty!!!!!
Output: Not similar
Sent1: And that killer has help, he has the people that support the death penalty and will give him more appeals, and if found guilty he'll get an easy way out with death, he won't have to suffer.
 Sent2: If the same murderer had been given the death penalty, and never released in the first place, he would not be able to kill again.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: That doesn't ensure that we don't end up murdering innocent people.
 Sent2: >>>If we are sure they raped & killed those innocent children then we should let them die.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: You are against of violence, but have you ever thought that death penalty is also violence?
 Sent2: My final point is, whether you believe in the afterlife or whether you think once we're dead this is it, do you not think death is the least punishing form of punishment?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: This is why I'm aganist the penalty as punishment.
 Sent2: For sheer purposes of punishing a criminal, I don't support the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: So if someone cared more about money then the life of the prisoner (as I do), they'd be aganist the current form of the penalty in America.
 Sent2: I personally would never wish death penalty on someone no matter what they did to me/family/friends I would just want them in jail for a life sentence because then the threat is pretty much over.
Output: Not 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: Back to reality, we convict the wrong person all the time, and we've set up a system where death penalty is actually more expensive than life in prison.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If they know they'll die if caught, they'll likely kill more rape victims and children.
 Sent2: OF THE VICTIM would be able to visit or at least know they're family members are alive if the criminal hadn't KILLED THEM!!
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If someone were to torture and kill one of my kids, I don�۪t think killing them would be punishment enough.
 Sent2: I do not think that a government should be unable to kill someone, simply that they almost always should not.
Output: Not 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: Does the death penalty deter evil more than life in prison?
Output: Similar
Sent1: If someone is bad enough to be considered for the death penalty then they must have had sure evidence that they are guilty if they are then they shouldn't deserve the right to live among people they could kill
 Sent2: The problem with the death penalty is eventually someone will be sentenced to death when they are in fact guilty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: That should be a crime which should result in the death penalty.
 Sent2: The death of a criminal prevents him from committing any further crimes.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: What does them being released have to do with the death penalty?
 Sent2: If someone is wrongly convicted of a crime and put in jail, they can be released if they're found to be innocent.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I also don't think someone has been put to death for a third degree murder.
 Sent2: If I ever "murder" someone without cause, I would deserve to die.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The fact remains that life in prison is cheaper than sentencing one to the death penalty.
 Sent2: 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.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Only if they try to murder somebody after they are in prison do they deserve the death penalty?
 Sent2: If someone is wrongly convicted of a crime and put in jail, they can be released if they're found to be innocent.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I dont believe that someone who killed or raped a lot of people should be able to live even if they are in a jail surrounded by other criminals.
 Sent2: If a person commits murder, I don't believe they deserve to live.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Once the danger is gone killing a person is simply murder.
 Sent2: if a person kills another person it is murder, whether it is sanctioned by the state or not.
Output: Similar
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.
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: 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.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I mean the death penalty is giving them a passage out of trouble, they wouldn't have to deal with the effects they had on the world.
 Sent2: Like I said I would just want them to actually have to deal with the consequences and not get an easy out, which is what executing them does.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I say that they should be killed the same way that the person(s) that they killed were.
 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