niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
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: If they know they'll die if caught, they'll likely kill more rape victims and children.
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: 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: The question of the death penalty is a tricky issue.
 Sent2: The problem with capital punishment, however, is that it is permanent.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I think the death penalty should only be used when there is undeniable proof against the suspect.
 Sent2: That's true, but I think the natural response to that would be that knowing the death penalty might be applied jurors would be much more careful about the burden of proof.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: They support it because killing murderers is the right thing to do.
 Sent2: I support the death penalty because I feel that their are crimes and criminals so heinous that they deserve death.
Output: Similar
Sent1: No, the death penalty is society as a whole voting that someone is far too dangerous to be allowed to remain in the country and deserves to be removed.
 Sent2: Death penalty should be allowed for those who deserves it.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: 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.
 Sent2: I believe that people who have killed, raped, tortured, or have done any other extreme act of violence should get the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: There are many reasons the death penalty should be abolished.
 Sent2: All of this information is the reason the Death penalty is so costly.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The question with the death penalty is not kill or give no punishment.
 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: The death penalty is the best possible deterrent for crime.
 Sent2: If we slap a guarantueed death penalty on murder then any following murderer commits the crime on pain of death which is a much better detterent.
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: that is why I support it for serial killers, I don't really support it for a murderer.
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: Death penalty should be allowed as it deters people from committing serious crimes such as murder.
Output: Similar
Sent1: There are many reasons the death penalty should be abolished.
 Sent2: If we are talking about abolishing the death penalty, then what is the point in arguing against technology that can only become more advanced?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Personally I am more interested in the deterrent effect of capital punishment over the punishment aspect.
 Sent2: If that is the case I am against Capital Punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: So what does he have to do with a debate like this about murderers and the death penalty?
 Sent2: The death of a criminal prevents him from committing any further crimes.
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: The death of a criminal prevents him from committing any further crimes.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If you chose to kill someone who wasn't endangering your life at the moment you deserve to be killed.
 Sent2: If you are ready to take somebody elses life, you'd better be prepared to give your life as well.
Output: Similar
Sent1: We could get the person who may kill in the future.
 Sent2: We seem to have more compassion for the victims and potential victims of murderers than we do for the murderers.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: There is no way to determine how many murders would have been committed.
 Sent2: When a person commits a crime, the Judicial system is responsible for determining a proportional response or penalty for the crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Death penatly is not just about money, but it is morally wrong.
 Sent2: The right to take away another man's life is not in our hands and therefore, I think that the death penalty is morally incorrect.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If you're arguing for a general principle (eg that Capital punishment is acceptible and effective) then you have to argue in the general case:
 Sent2: So, in summary, you aren't against the death penalty on principle.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Deterrence is not the only reason I support the death penalty.
 Sent2: For sheer purposes of punishing a criminal, I don't support the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: You should also note that the one scenario I think the death penalty is acceptable for is if they try to escape using violence or if they attack another prisoner.
 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: Similar
Sent1: I believe that murder is the killing of a human being.
 Sent2: I don't think anyone has been put the death for third degree murder either.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If you rape a kid then you shouldn't be allowed to live.
 Sent2: If you rape a child then you deserve more than anybody to be put down and eliminated forever.
Output: Similar
Sent1: 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.
 Sent2: As for the death penalty, although it should be used more often on murders and serial killers, even rapists, it probaly isnt neccary to use it on robbers.
Output: Not 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: I am not a pacifist, so I am not opposed to all state-sanctioned killing.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I do feel that those who murder in cold blood would be more than deserving of the death penalty.
 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: Not to mention that the death penalty is more costly than simple life in prison in both money and time.
 Sent2: Hellno is right, capital punishment should be much more cost effective than the alternative- life in prison without parole.
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: What you are actually criticizing is the success of a free appeals system and saying that it would have been better to kill an innocent man because that would have been cheaper and made a better point.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: And some people should be thrown away without being executed.
 Sent2: Why would you prefer people to be killed rather than jailed away from society so that their harm is neutralised?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The lives saved by the death penalty, which I suspect is 0, unless the answer to the above question is "yes", is smaller than the innocents killed by the death penalty.
 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: 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 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: DNA technology could be required for the death penalty making it far less likely that an innocent is sentenced to death.
 Sent2: My argument makes it clear that innocent people need not be sentenced to death in order for the death penalty to be unjust.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I have a entirely different view as to what the goal of capital punishment should be.
 Sent2: Unless you feel that punishment should be based solely on retribution, I think there is some wiggle room for different sentencing guidelines for different aged humans.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: As a whole has been decided that murder, that killing someone without a justifiable reason, is wrong.
 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: in fact the ones against the death penalty ARE FOR ABORTION!
 Sent2: I'm against abortion and nominally for the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: But the statistics don't support the idea that the death penalty is any more effective as a detterent than is a life sentence.
 Sent2: It seems that those that would be deterred by fear of punishment are already dettered by the threat of a life sentence.
Output: 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: Once the danger is gone killing a person is simply murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Those are the only relevant ones, seeing as my argument is that the death penalty should be changed to life imprisonment.
 Sent2: Arguments that support the death penalty are the only ones that can reference the Constitution.
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: It wouldn't shock me if someone committed murder JUST to get those things.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The dealth penalty is not as simple as it seems.
 Sent2: No one who committed such an act should get the easy way out with death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The biggest problem I have with the death penalty is the cost.
 Sent2: Otherwise, if it is only a matter that you don't want to pay for them, then I should mention that the average capital punishment criminal costs more all together than does a lifer.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Prison guards, other inmates, etc., are all potential victims of lifers behind bars.
 Sent2: 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.
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 final argument against the death penalty is that it is inhumane.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: But the statistics don't support the idea that the death penalty is any more effective as a detterent than is a life sentence.
 Sent2: The statistics about the effectiveness of the death penalty in deterring crimes are very mixed and seem inconclusive.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Anyway, the risk of killing an innocent is one arguement against the death penalty.
 Sent2: My argument makes it clear that innocent people need not be sentenced to death in order for the death penalty to be unjust.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Or you could merely ignore them and concede that the death penalty is flawed, kills innocent people and costs the lives of innocents in the use of how it is funded
 Sent2: An argument for putting people to death is so that they can never escape and kill again.
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: Acutally, long ago, the executioner was a convict also sentenced to death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I have heard of two instances of innocent men who were executed back in the seventies.
 Sent2: Although, personally, I would rather be executed if I was innocent than sit in a cell for life.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: In addition, it is evident that the death penalty does not deter murder rates.
 Sent2: There is absolutely ZERO evidence that the death penalty deters crime.
Output: Similar
Sent1: What we need are harsher sentences including the death penalty.
 Sent2: The death penalty by nature requires a PERFECT body to govern it, we will never obtain that, we'll never come close.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I am a case by case pro, Some people simply need to be put to death for the crimes they have commited so that others are protected.
 Sent2: I mean that if the death penalty would be legalized, people will scare to commit the crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: 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.
 Sent2: Otherwise, if it is only a matter that you don't want to pay for them, then I should mention that the average capital punishment criminal costs more all together than does a lifer.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The person who said that the death penalty should be used for people who are convicted of multiple-burglaries sounds like a complete knucklehead.
 Sent2: When someone mentions a criminal deterrence factor with death sentences, it sounds like a bad joke or total ignorance.
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: If you accept vengeance as a reason for punishment then I understand why you would support the death penalty.
Output: 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: 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: Should the abuser be put to death, that would be to good for him.
 Sent2: You could just as easily argue that he was unjustly put to death and therefore it is a statement against 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: 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: 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: killing a person, no matter the reason, is still murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: So, the only reason I can really see why people support the death penalty is to have simple vengeance against the perpretrator.
 Sent2: If you accept vengeance as a reason for punishment then I understand why you would support the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: We let killers out of prison so they can kill again.
 Sent2: So we kill killers, but in the end, end up with more murders.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I believe there are certain crimes where the death penalty is an acceptable punishment.
 Sent2: I firmly believe that some crimes and criminals are deserving of death.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If a person wasn't convicted then they surely wouldn't be murdered by the state.
 Sent2: Only if they try to murder somebody after they are in prison do they deserve the death penalty?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: So what does he have to do with a debate like this about murderers and the death penalty?
 Sent2: Ask the family members of who he killed if he deserves death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Even the people who did the study saying that innocents had been executed admitted that they cannot prove same.
 Sent2: People have, and will, be executed even though they are innocent of the crime.
Output: 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: 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: I feel as though you're implying that the death penalty is an effective crime deterrent.
 Sent2: You can't just assume the death penalty is a crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If you read my arguments clearly you would understand that i said capital punishment if used more often will deter crime.
 Sent2: That comment implies that you see the death penalty as a deterrent.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The question is should the death penalty be allowed as a form of punishment.
 Sent2: Death penalty should be allowed for those who deserves it.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Serial killers, "How many people did you kill?"
 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: That comment implies that you see the death penalty as a deterrent.
 Sent2: I feel as though you're implying that the death penalty is an effective crime deterrent.
Output: Similar
Sent1: That comment implies that you see the death penalty as a deterrent.
 Sent2: If you think there shouldn't be a death penalty, you're an idiot.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: 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.
 Sent2: How do you compare killing a little child who has never had the chance to live to the execution of a criminal who has been raping and killing little children?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: 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.
 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: I'm also against death penalty because no one except God has the right to take person's life.
 Sent2: I think America should ban the death penalty because no man/woman has the right to kill anyone even if the have done something wrong, because i believe that only God should have the power to take people's lives.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I think I could kill someone trying to kill any one of my children.
 Sent2: If someone kills my child, my parent, my siblings, my love, i would want them to pay the price.
Output: Similar
Sent1: How can you justify teaching a generation of children that to stop killers from killing because killing is wrong, we should kill them?
 Sent2: >>>If we are sure they raped & killed those innocent children then we should let them die.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is a outdated, expensive, immoral, form of punishment.
 Sent2: I think the death penalty is an archaic and obsolete form of punishment, even for the crime of murder.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Indeed, on average, states with the death penalty have more murders per capita - probably because local economy is a higher differentiating influence.
 Sent2: Indeed, the states with the death penalty on average have a higher per capita murder rate than those without - suggesting that other factors (economy, etc.) play a much larger role.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I'm also against death penalty because no one except God has the right to take person's life.
 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 is about specific crimes, not any crimes.
 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: The first twenty states with higher murder rates all have the death penalty.
 Sent2: In the United States, states without the death penalty has consistently lower murder rates.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Therefore the argument of death as a deterent is a joke.
 Sent2: Many people argue that the death penalty is not a detterence.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Capitol punishment is not just the execution of murderers, but the execution of anyone by the state.
 Sent2: Murder is murder and those who execute the death penalty are murderers as well.
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 just raped someone (this is just an example) they shouldn't be killed for it, but something like a mass murdering or serial killing should be dealt with by putting them to death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I would support the death penalty IF there was a way to ensure that it would not put innocent people to death.
 Sent2: "We know for a FACT that innocent people have been put to death already"- then give me their names.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: So, if you had to kill 1 person to save 2 people's lives...you wouldn't????
 Sent2: Especially given that you have accepted that some innocent people are executed.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty right now is to easy even I think.
 Sent2: I don't think everyone should be put to death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I don't think the death penalty should be banned.
 Sent2: I don't think everyone should be put to death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Obviously, if someone were found innocent before execution, they would not be executed.
 Sent2: People have, and will, be executed even though they are innocent of the crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Life incarceration will never let him kill again, and its cheaper.
 Sent2: No he the guy who killed twitter should have to suffer in jail and think about what he done for the rest of his life, and not be given the easy way out buy the death pentaly.
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: Capital punishment is killing someone as a punishment for a crime they committed.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Others have said that the death penalty is biblically wrong.
 Sent2: Yeah, including the human judgment that says that the death penalty is wrong.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Saying the death penalty is a justified method of punishment for a crime just because the criminal is a killer himself is a completely contrived reason.
 Sent2: Is it reason to do away with the death penalty?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The thing is, without the death penalty there is absolutely no deterrent from committing heinous crimes.
 Sent2: Death penalty are given to those who have comitted a very serious crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Only some states use the death penalty, only some countries allow the death penalty.
 Sent2: Over 40 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes since 1990.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Life incarceration will never let him kill again, and its cheaper.
 Sent2: Life imprisonment without parole is more effective than execution, and it is cheaper.
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: It wouldn't shock me if someone committed murder JUST to get those things.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: There are many countries with lower murder rates than the U.S. and no death penalty.
 Sent2: 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.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Death penalty should be allowed as it deters people from committing serious crimes such as murder.
 Sent2: People who will commit a crime with life in prison would probably still commit the crime with capital punishment.
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 have been a victim of rape and if I were a victim of murder I would not desire the death penalty for the perpetrator.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: And the purpose of the death penalty is not to punish, but to deter further crime.
 Sent2: The death of a criminal prevents him from committing any further crimes.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I think people suffer more when they spend their whole lives in jail.
 Sent2: If I were charged to do something that forced me to spend the rest of my life in jail, I would rather die right now - I think they're doing the criminal a favor by putting him down.
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: Also, within the USA, murder rates are consistently lower in states that don't have capital punishment.
Output: Similar
Sent1: , I believe the death penalty has deterred at least some people from committing murder.
 Sent2: I believe that people who have killed, raped, tortured, or have done any other extreme act of violence should get the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The fact remains that life in prison is cheaper than sentencing one to the death penalty.
 Sent2: First, it is more expensive than sentencing someone to life in prison.
Output: Similar
Sent1: There is no way to determine how many murders would have been committed.
 Sent2: Death penalty are given to those who have comitted a very serious crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Especially given that you have accepted that some innocent people are executed.
 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: First, we must choose to use executions because they may save innocent life.
 Sent2: 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.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Why do people even question whether death is an acceptable form of punishment in the first place?
 Sent2: The question is should the death penalty be allowed as a form of punishment.
Output: 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: Only some states use the death penalty, only some countries allow the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Only .06% of people who have killed kill again when they escape, are released, etc.
 Sent2: What if there were people killing other people, escaping from jail, doing it again etc.
Output: Similar
Sent1: So in reality, pushing the death penalty only ensures that more innocent people will be murdered.
 Sent2: I would support the death penalty IF there was a way to ensure that it would not put innocent people to death.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I believe that if person takes the life of another, he should lose his life.
 Sent2: If I were charged to do something that forced me to spend the rest of my life in jail, I would rather die right now - I think they're doing the criminal a favor by putting him down.
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 commits murder, I don't believe they deserve to live.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: There are no children being killed, and killing a child is murder in America.
 Sent2: Once the danger is gone killing a person is simply murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: But I oppose the death penalty because it has the capacity to kill innocent people.
 Sent2: I would support the death penalty IF there was a way to ensure that it would not put innocent people to death.
Output: Similar
Sent1: There is no way to determine how many murders would have been committed.
 Sent2: In all honesty im glad i am not someone who has to decide murder as punishment for someone who has committed crimes.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I believe that societies should punish criminals to the degree that they have to based on sound rational reasons.
 Sent2: Quite a lot of people think that criminals should be punished for the sake of punishing them, whether or not it deters anyone; I had thought you were one of them.
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: There has seldom if ever been any occurrence in which someone has violently avenged a murderer's death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: In fact, I think if Jesus did not believe in the death penalty, it would make his sacrifice that much greater, because he would be being unjustly put to death.
 Sent2: I am not a big proponent of the death penalty.
Output: Not 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: 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.
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: politicaly correct death penalty we impose here in America may not deter crime as well as we think it should.
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: It's been determined the death penalty is economically inefficient and I have yet to see any solid statistics displaying a defined deterrent factor.
Output: Similar
Sent1: but spending whole life in jail would be a better punishment
 Sent2: It seems that those that would be deterred by fear of punishment are already dettered by the threat of a life sentence.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If they don't want to kill an innocent person, stick to life in prison.
 Sent2: If a person wasn't convicted then they surely wouldn't be murdered by the state.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty again has not only shown but proved to deter murder so therefore i wpuld suggest you reconsider your closing arguments.
 Sent2: Your description, that the death penalty is a deterrent, is incorrect.
Output: Similar
Sent1: It wouldn't shock me if someone committed murder JUST to get those things.
 Sent2: I mean that if the death penalty would be legalized, people will scare to commit the crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The fact remains that life in prison is cheaper than sentencing one to the death penalty.
 Sent2: it has been proven time and again prisons don't rehabilitate, keeping someone in prision for their entire life in prision is less human than the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I believe that murder is the killing of a human being.
 Sent2: I think the death penalty is an archaic and obsolete form of punishment, even for the crime of murder.
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: 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.
Output: 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: if someone commits any crime, then they are a criminal by definition and should die.
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: If there was another factor, then there would have already been arguments against this study using other studies produced by the opponents of the death penalty to proved this theory wrong.
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: 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.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If these are indeed comparable, I wouldn't argue for the death penalty even in murder.
 Sent2: 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.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty doesn't need to become more equalized.
 Sent2: The death penalty doesn't need to serve as a deterrent to crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The fact remains that life in prison is cheaper than sentencing one to the death penalty.
 Sent2: Hellno is right, capital punishment should be much more cost effective than the alternative- life in prison without parole.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: You might say the criminal deserved it, but murder is murder, whether they deserved it or not.
 Sent2: You say that all people who commit gruesome murders are psychopaths.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Only some states use the death penalty, only some countries allow the death penalty.
 Sent2: There are 17 death penalty states over the national average.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The crime rate was higher after the death penalty than before it.
 Sent2: There's absolutely ZERO evidence that having a death penalty statute causes a lower crime rate, period.
Output: Similar
Sent1: My argument is that innocent people have been killed by the death penalty.
 Sent2: Anyway, the risk of killing an innocent is one arguement against the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If the execution rate decreased and the murder rate increased then that explains the deterrence effect of capital punishment.
 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: Similar
Sent1: , I believe the death penalty has deterred at least some people from committing murder.
 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: I don't think the death penalty should be banned.
 Sent2: I believe there are certain crimes where the death penalty is an acceptable punishment.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Only in severe cases where there isn't a doubt that the person is guilty.
 Sent2: I think the death penalty should only be used in extreme cases where the accused is, without a doubt, guilty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Like I said, I don't disagree with the theory of the death penalty.
 Sent2: Though I would not call the death penalty murder, I am personally against it.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The biggest problem I have with the death penalty is the cost.
 Sent2: I am not a big proponent of the death penalty.
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: 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: So how about we stop a penalty that has executed innocents?
 Sent2: If we don't stop the death penalty before we try to fix it, the imperfect system will continue to convict innocent people while we determine what is best for it.
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 have fared BETTER in reducing their murder rates than states with the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: 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.
 Sent2: The death of a criminal prevents him from committing any further crimes.
Output: Not 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: There is, in fact, no proof that an innocent has been executed since 1900.
Output: 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: We need to halt the death penalty before anyone else gets unjustly sentenced, then fix the problems (if that is even possible), and then, when we have safeguards in place, reinstitute it.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I also don't think someone has been put to death for a third degree murder.
 Sent2: I don't think everyone should be put to death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: We could get the person who may kill in the future.
 Sent2: If someone keeps killing and killing and killing, we need to stop him from taking lives.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: therefore the death penalty should not be used, simply because it 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: 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.
 Sent2: If someone kills my child, my parent, my siblings, my love, i would want them to pay the price.
Output: Similar
Sent1: First it is more expensive to kill a person, then letting him stay for a life long imprisonment.
 Sent2: First, it is more expensive than sentencing someone to life in prison.
Output: Similar
Sent1: That doesn't ensure that we don't end up murdering innocent people.
 Sent2: As of yet, we have not seen fact one that even one innocent person has been put to death.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The murder rate for the state of New York, a state without the death penalty has increased this year with a higher rate of murder than it was in 2009.
 Sent2: Moreover, states without the death penalty have much lower murder rates.
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: As of yet, we have not seen fact one that even one innocent person has been put to death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: 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.
 Sent2: If a person commits murder, I don't believe they deserve to live.
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: 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: Similar
Sent1: The way I see it people who murder shouldn't be sentenced to death or spend life in the jails we have here there to nice.
 Sent2: How many people with a life sentence without parole have died an prison and been innocent?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: There is not any good by taking the life of the criminal.
 Sent2: If death penalty were the solution for such criminal actions, then people who are "good" and have contributed to society deserve to live forever.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty has been used as a scapegoat for many people who are against executions.
 Sent2: the death penalty is also discriminatory in its application what i mean is that through out the world the death penalty is disproportionately used against disadvantaged people .
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: therefore the death penalty should not be used, simply because it kills innocent people.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If you rape a kid then you shouldn't be allowed to live.
 Sent2: How do you compare killing a little child who has never had the chance to live to the execution of a criminal who has been raping and killing little children?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: You can't get much worse than a death penalty.
 Sent2: If you think there shouldn't be a death penalty, you're an idiot.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: It wouldn't shock me if someone committed murder JUST to get those things.
 Sent2: Why am I not surprised that someone who is anti-choice person would also support the death penalty, even though there is no evidence that the DP deters any crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: we should have death penalty only for the most severe criminally insane serial killers.
 Sent2: If we execute death penalty, we will not be better than murderers.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: People who commit bad crimes shouldn't be allowed to suffer in prison for the rest of their life.
 Sent2: People who will commit a crime with life in prison would probably still commit the crime with capital punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: We shouldn't just kill someone if they commit a crime.
 Sent2: We let killers out of prison so they can kill again.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: There is absolutely ZERO evidence that the death penalty deters crime.
 Sent2: There's absolutely ZERO evidence that having a death penalty statute causes a lower crime rate, period.
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: 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.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: It wouldn't shock me if someone committed murder JUST to get those things.
 Sent2: If I ever "murder" someone without cause, I would deserve to die.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: >_> Says the person who brought up freaking Nelson in a debate about the death penalty for murders.
 Sent2: It is called the death penalty for a reason...it is a penalty, a punishment.
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: No he the guy who killed twitter should have to suffer in jail and think about what he done for the rest of his life, and not be given the easy way out buy the death pentaly.
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: 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: that is why I support it for serial killers, I don't really support it for a murderer.
 Sent2: For sheer purposes of punishing a criminal, I don't support the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: ...and if I do someday murder someone, I should be killed.
 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 think there should be a death penalty because, all those innocent people getting killed for no damn reason is unfair.
 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: If we execute death penalty, we will not be better than murderers.
 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: Not similar
Sent1: Besides I'm not saying we should apply the death penalty in all instances of murder for example.
 Sent2: I'm not saying we shouldn't do anything for the victims.
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: Only if they try to murder somebody after they are in prison do they deserve the death penalty?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: An argument for putting people to death is so that they can never escape and kill again.
 Sent2: My argument is that innocent people have been killed by the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: We must look into why the person raped a child or murdered a father.
 Sent2: >>>If we are sure they raped & killed those innocent children then we should let them die.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The people dying from the death penalty are guilty people who have taken the lives of others.
 Sent2: Well, some other people feel insecure about life-sentences in prison!
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: 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: You are against of violence, but have you ever thought that death penalty is also violence?
 Sent2: You should also note that the one scenario I think the death penalty is acceptable for is if they try to escape using violence or if they attack another prisoner.
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: There has been so much cases of people who have been executed, only to be found innocent after their death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: But why do you have to get rid of them by killing them.
 Sent2: You make it sound as though if someone is innocent, of anything, they should be killed.
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: Therefore, people will think twice before they choose to commit a crime and also, the death penalty has been proven to deter the crime rate.
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: 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