niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
Sent1: The first twenty states with higher murder rates all have the death penalty.
 Sent2: The majority populations of all countries may support the death penalty for some crimes (1).
Output: Not similar
Sent1: In addition, it is evident that the death penalty does not deter murder rates.
 Sent2: The death penalty as a deterrent, our murder rate loudly speaks to that.
Output: 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 one who committed such an act should get the easy way out with death.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I have evidence that says that innocent people are convicted of crimes.
 Sent2: As I mentioned, I feel that two witnesses to the crime(s) or a confession in court is sufficient.
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: 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: 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: So what does he have to do with a debate like this about murderers and the death penalty?
Output: Not 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: 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: Not similar
Sent1: We could get the person who may kill in the future.
 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: Because we are all potential victims of violent crime, and I believe that there are violent crimes deserving of the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I'm also against death penalty because no one except God has the right to take person's life.
 Sent2: I am "for" capital punishment... but if a criminal shows a desire for death over a life sentence, I prefer to be sadistic.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: This argument has been made for the death penalty also.
 Sent2: The final argument against the death penalty is that it is inhumane.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Some people totally deserve the death penalty and I would hate it if they were released.
 Sent2: I think only certain people deserve to have the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: In all cases, the first punishment shouldn't be the death penalty.
 Sent2: Firstly, life in prison is a worse punishment.Death penalty it is the simplest punishment for the person who e.g. killed, raped, committed act of terrorism and etc.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is the only just punishment for their actions.
 Sent2: In all cases, the first punishment shouldn't be the death penalty.
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: I firmly believe that some crimes and criminals are deserving of death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I think instead of a death penalty, they should just stay in prison until they die because putting someone to death is just harsh, No matter who it is.
 Sent2: 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 would fear the death penalty very little in my home state due to the fact that it has only been used 3 times since 1976, and 228 inmates currently reside on death row.
 Sent2: Only some states use the death penalty, only some countries allow the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I am responding.....you seem to think thatg life in prison is worse then the death penalty........I am telling you that the prisoners on death row would disagree........
 Sent2: Like I said, I don't disagree with the theory of the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Killing a person for them killing someone else ( I understand this is not necessarily the criteria for receiving the death penalty) makes you no better than the executed.
 Sent2: Obviously, if someone were found innocent before execution, they would not be executed.
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: Hellno is right, capital punishment should be much more cost effective than the alternative- life in prison without parole.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I don't think preventing the death of more humans is idiocy.
 Sent2: I believe that murder is the killing of a human being.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I mean that if the death penalty would be legalized, people will scare to commit the crime.
 Sent2: People who will commit a crime with life in prison would probably still commit the crime with capital punishment.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Again, I support the death penalty for certain crimes and criminals.
 Sent2: The death penalty is about specific crimes, not any crimes.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Death penalty are given to those who have comitted a very serious crime.
 Sent2: The death of a criminal prevents him from committing any further crimes.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: People generally think that the death penalty is worse than life without parole (certainly most criminals seem to think so).
 Sent2: I think only certain people deserve to have 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: 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: 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: There is absolutely ZERO evidence that the death penalty deters crime.
Output: Similar
Sent1: So if we can assume that innocent people are convicted in capital punishment cases, shouldn't we be free to assume that innocent people are being convicted in non-capital punishment cases as well?
 Sent2: As long as we sentence people to a life in prison we are also GUARANTEED to sentence an innocent person.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I do not think this is harsh as the person who had done it deserves it.
 Sent2: I think only certain people deserve to have the death penalty.
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: 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: If you accept vengeance as a reason for punishment then I understand why you would support the death penalty.
 Sent2: Since some of you seem to oppose the death penalty for one reason or another, and since I support it, we stand at an impass on this situation.
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: If they don't want to kill an innocent person, stick to life in prison.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: You can't get much worse than a death penalty.
 Sent2: I am responding.....you seem to think thatg life in prison is worse then the death penalty........I am telling you that the prisoners on death row would disagree........
Output: Similar
Sent1: The death penalty is simply a legally imposed punishment given to felons who commited crimes for which the death penalty is applicable.
 Sent2: That should be a crime which should result in the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: First, it is more expensive than sentencing someone to life in prison.
 Sent2: How many people with a life sentence without parole have died an prison and been innocent?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I am not disagreeing with punishing criminals for crimes they have 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: The argument for the death penalty as a deterrent has been proved wrong by the implementation of it through history.
 Sent2: Therefore the argument of death as a deterent is a joke.
Output: Similar
Sent1: By killing a person who murdered someone, you are just doing the same thing you are punishing him/her for.
 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: The death penalty is the best possible deterrent for crime.
 Sent2: And the purpose of the death penalty is not to punish, but to deter further crime.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The notion that innocent people may be sentenced to death is not a death penalty problem, it is a judicial system problem.
 Sent2: No matter how well the justice system works, we will always risk convicting innocent people.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I KNOW IT COSTS A LOT TO KEEP AN INMATE IN PRISON.
 Sent2: I just think that if all non-volent offenders were out of jail then we'd have A LOT more room.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Oh I'm not saying that the govenrment should do away with the death penalty on these grounds, I'm saying that Christian people should oppose it, you said it yourself.
 Sent2: I have evidence that says that innocent people are convicted of crimes.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: We could get the person who may kill in the future.
 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: If it must be, then we shall find a way to improve these peoples habits, not kill them because they aren't 'like us'.
 Sent2: If we kill our criminals, we see no opertunity for them to right their ways.
Output: Similar
Sent1: That doesn't ensure that we don't end up murdering innocent people.
 Sent2: 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.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: In addition, it is evident that the death penalty does not deter murder rates.
 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: Similar
Sent1: I don't feel as strongly about the death penalty as I feel about the abortion rights debate since I can relate to the desire for vengeance that people feel.
 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: Statistics show that capital punishment is no more of a deterrent than life without parole so I fail to see your arguement about society needing capital punishment.
 Sent2: 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.
Output: Similar
Sent1: There are some who need to be put to death.
 Sent2: There is  no  social need for the Death Penality, so it ought not be used, since it only leads to more pain and suffereing.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Exactly the sort of person that we might want put to death by the justice system.
 Sent2: If we don't stop the death penalty now, we will put innocent people to death while we try to fix the problems.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: from a biblical perspective the death penalty is no longer necessary.
 Sent2: The French feel the death penalty is no longer necessary.
Output: Similar
Sent1: That right to life was taken away, I agree, but we will not accomplish anything if we kill someone else.
 Sent2: I'm not saying we shouldn't do anything for the victims.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: They shouldn't want to send an innocent person to prison for life either so it should have been pretty clear they were guilty already.
 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: Serial killers, "How many people did you kill?"
 Sent2: You say that all people who commit gruesome murders are psychopaths.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Obviously, if someone were found innocent before execution, they would not be executed.
 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: Not similar
Sent1: Obviously, if someone were found innocent before execution, they would not be executed.
 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: Not similar
Sent1: There would be executions for murderers and jail time for others.
 Sent2: IE - the death penalty acts as a deterrent to other would be murderers.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: While criminal trials not involving the death penalty can also involve mistakes, there is at least the opportunity for those mistakes to be corrected.
 Sent2: That should be a crime which should result in the death penalty.
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: Besides, if someone raped and killed my daughter, I'd prefer they suffered the rest of their life in jail being man-raped by a bunch of rednecks and neo-nazi's than just be given the easy way out.
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: Louisiana, a state with the death penalty and the highest murder rate in the country, has almost no gun control.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Statistics show that capital punishment is no more of a deterrent than life without parole so I fail to see your arguement about society needing capital punishment.
 Sent2: Many people argue that the death penalty is not a detterence.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I dont think the death penalty should be apllied in just any case.
 Sent2: To summarize, I think the death penalty should be used, but only in extreme cases.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Which means that the execution rate may be low and still act as even more of a deterrent if publicity is increased.
 Sent2: If the execution rate decreased and the murder rate increased then that explains the deterrence effect of capital punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: But why do you have to get rid of them by killing them.
 Sent2: You might say the criminal deserved it, but murder is murder, whether they deserved it or not.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If we can not prevent the innocent from unjust punishment, we should not have the death penalty.
 Sent2: So if we can assume that innocent people are convicted in capital punishment cases, shouldn't we be free to assume that innocent people are being convicted in non-capital punishment cases as well?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty has been used as a scapegoat for many people who are against executions.
 Sent2: No, if it is already known that this person made the crime, the death penalty may be used.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Capital punishment frees up jail cells: Considering how few people we execute and how many new people enter the prison system each year, I do not see this as being a very good argument.
 Sent2: Well lets see - we have had about 70 executions in the last few years, people held on death row.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: You can't just assume the death penalty is a crime.
 Sent2: If you think there shouldn't be a death penalty, you're an idiot.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Both the death penalty and a life sentence would have prevent further murders.
 Sent2: And the purpose of the death penalty is not to punish, but to deter further crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Serial killers, "How many people did you kill?"
 Sent2: The fact that you believe a person should be executed for kicking a dog demonstrates that you are one f those unhinged vigliante sorts; your sort should be chlorinated from the gene pool before you become a serial killer.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Deterrence is not the only reason I support the death penalty.
 Sent2: If you accept vengeance as a reason for punishment then I understand why you would support the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Both the death penalty and a life sentence would have prevent further murders.
 Sent2: Does the death penalty deter evil more than life in prison?
Output: Similar
Sent1: Living in jail for life costs less money then the death penalty.
 Sent2: Life and death decisions should NOT be based on money.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Actually we still kill the wrong person all the time.
 Sent2: We must look into why the person raped a child or murdered a father.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: No one asks a murderer if killing a person for wearing pink feels like killing a person that has killed another... It may be equally as justified.
 Sent2: As a whole has been decided that murder, that killing someone without a justifiable reason, is wrong.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: No matter how well the justice system works, we will always risk convicting innocent people.
 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: The death penalty is not used for what it is supposed to be used for.
 Sent2: I don't think everyone should be put to death.
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: The person having been convicted of a crime punishable by death and subsequently sentenced to death should be put to death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I think there should be a death penalty because, all those innocent people getting killed for no damn reason is unfair.
 Sent2: Exactly how many innocent people has the death penalty killed?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: ...which is why I and many others favor life without parole, period.
 Sent2: I am advocating life in prison without the option of parole.
Output: Similar
Sent1: killing a person, no matter the reason, is still murder.
 Sent2: if a person kills another person it is murder, whether it is sanctioned by the state or not.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I do not think that a government should be unable to kill someone, simply that they almost always should not.
 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: If you rape a kid then you shouldn't be allowed to live.
 Sent2: The point is that people who care about you will suffer more if you die than if you are tortured or raped.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: 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.
 Sent2: I'd rather be put to death than sit in a jail cell and rot for the rest of my life.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I think death penalties should be allowed for harsh offenses.
 Sent2: The death penalty right now is to easy even I think.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Until then, I remain unmoved by their cries of "innocent people" being put to death.
 Sent2: "We know for a FACT that innocent people have been put to death already"- then give me their names.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I believe there are certain crimes where the death penalty is an acceptable punishment.
 Sent2: By the way, I suspect that certain harsh punishments imposed on lesser crimes are also often imposed with vengeance also in mind.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If it must be, then we shall find a way to improve these peoples habits, not kill them because they aren't 'like us'.
 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: There have been numerous people who were presumed innocent after execution because the evidence showed that they were not guilty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is not used for what it is supposed to be used for.
 Sent2: If the justice system is organized and operated correctly, then I believe the death penalty should be used, but it should only be used in very severe cases.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: One person there actually killed his entire family when he was younger, except for his sister because she got away in time.
 Sent2: But killing someone because of him killing someone is quite hypocritical.
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: The way I see it, capital punishment doesn't have to be expensive at all.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Morally, I do not believe in eye for an eye, because it would leave the whole world blind.
 Sent2: I do believe in the death Penalty, eye for and eye.
Output: Similar
Sent1: i think that life without opportunity of parole is the more humane and just punishment instead of the death penalty.
 Sent2: People generally think that the death penalty is worse than life without parole (certainly most criminals seem to think so).
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I would guess that most murders are done out of passion, when a person is not acting rationally and thus attempts to model murder as a rational decision are inherently flawed.
 Sent2: I think I could kill someone trying to kill any one of my children.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: People generally think that the death penalty is worse than life without parole (certainly most criminals seem to think so).
 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: The point is that people who care about you will suffer more if you die than if you are tortured or raped.
 Sent2: This was one of his most important messages, yet now we learn that you are wishing death upon these people, not just the extreme suffering that you previously wished upon them.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If the death penalty were an adequate deterrent then we would not have murder.
 Sent2: And it seems that every time we start talking about the death penalty, that we end up talking about whether or not it deters crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: 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.
 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: I have evidence that says that innocent people are convicted of crimes.
 Sent2: as for the innocent people who have been murdered by criminals, of course the statistics show more people having been the victim.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Once the danger is gone killing a person is simply murder.
 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: Not similar
Sent1: Once the danger is gone killing a person is simply murder.
 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: Not similar
Sent1: Do you want a innocent person to pay with their life for your vengence which doesn't erase the crime?
 Sent2: If you get a life sentence, you shouldn't have any choices whatsoever.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I'm against abortion and nominally for the death penalty.
 Sent2: This is why I'm aganist the penalty as punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I think people suffer more when they spend their whole lives in jail.
 Sent2: 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.
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: SO in turn, there is no clear evidence indicating that there is not a detterent value to the death penalty.
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: 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: But why do you have to get rid of them by killing them.
 Sent2: You cannot kill somebody just because they've broken into your house, you have to have a well founded fear of harm.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If the justice system is organized and operated correctly, then I believe the death penalty should be used, but it should only be used in very severe cases.
 Sent2: Why not just work to reform the justice system, instead of working to stop the death penalty, then working to reform the justice system, and THEN working to reinstitute the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: First, we must choose to use executions because they may save innocent life.
 Sent2: There should no be a death penalty, since by taking a human's life, we are not saving it.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: In all cases, the first punishment shouldn't be the death penalty.
 Sent2: In any case, he didn't say that the penalty for sin is death, he said the penalty for one particular action which Adam couldn't even know was wrong, being unaware of good and evil, was death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: You can attempt say I'm being illogical, but you have yet to explain why the death penalty is preferable to imprisonment.
 Sent2: I suppose you could say "well it keeps them from harming society" but so does the death penalty.
Output: Not 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: 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: Similar
Sent1: "We know for a FACT that innocent people have been put to death already"- then give me their names.
 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: Exactly the sort of person that we might want put to death by the justice system.
 Sent2: 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.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Consequences are there to deter people from doing wrong."
 Sent2: Most people who would be deterred already seem to be deterred by life without parole as a punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: But killing someone because of him killing someone is quite hypocritical.
 Sent2: Second, he killed someone during the commission of another crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: that is why I support it for serial killers, I don't really support it for a murderer.
 Sent2: I do not support the death penalty - but it's not because I feel bad for criminals.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I'm not really in favor of killing innocent people either.
 Sent2: I see what you mean, but i'm still against killing people .
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The way I see it, capital punishment doesn't have to be expensive at all.
 Sent2: Though I would not call the death penalty murder, I am personally against it.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Someone who commits a crime that serious should at least be behind bars for the rest of their life, no parole at all.
 Sent2: People who commit bad crimes shouldn't be allowed to suffer in prison for the rest of their life.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I don't think the death penalty should be banned.
 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: The question of the death penalty is a tricky issue.
 Sent2: The debate question asks "Should the death penalty be legalized?"
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty was included in that "law."
 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: 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.
 Sent2: Death penalty should be allowed as it deters people from committing serious crimes such as murder.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I'm not really in favor of killing innocent people either.
 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: Implementing the death penalty will not eliminate it but help to reduce the rate of crime.
 Sent2: The crime rate was higher after the death penalty than before it.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The fact remains that life in prison is cheaper than sentencing one to the death penalty.
 Sent2: 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.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Death penatly is not just about money, but it is morally wrong.
 Sent2: If murder is wrong than so is the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I don't think the death penalty should be banned.
 Sent2: , I believe the death penalty has deterred at least some people from committing murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty has never been shown to be a deterent to murder.
 Sent2: If the death penalty were an adequate deterrent then we would not have murder.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I think instead of a death penalty, they should just stay in prison until they die because putting someone to death is just harsh, No matter who it is.
 Sent2: Only if they try to murder somebody after they are in prison do they deserve the death penalty?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: It costs far more to execute a person than to keep him or her in prison for life.
 Sent2: If someone keeps killing and killing and killing, we need to stop him from taking lives.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: There are no children being killed, and killing a child is murder in America.
 Sent2: We must look into why the person raped a child or murdered a father.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Again, I support the death penalty for certain crimes and criminals.
 Sent2: I firmly believe that some crimes and criminals are deserving of death.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The point is that people who care about you will suffer more if you die than if you are tortured or raped.
 Sent2: After all, the person you're torturing may actually be innocent.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: You're assuming (a) convicted murderers regret killing their victims (b) that they think of their victims as innocent and (c) that I care what murderers feel or think.
 Sent2: I see what you mean, but i'm still against killing people .
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The government doesn't have the right to take away someone's life, even in the case of murder.
 Sent2: The government does not have the right to kill people.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The Death Penalty is a subject i am very passionate about and i am also pursuing the study of criminal law so it has exposed me to many facts.
 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: Not similar
Sent1: So if we can assume that innocent people are convicted in capital punishment cases, shouldn't we be free to assume that innocent people are being convicted in non-capital punishment cases as well?
 Sent2: The few cases that convict innocent people are becoming even fewer.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: we should have death penalty only for the most severe criminally insane serial killers.
 Sent2: If it is as serious as torture or murder... Yes we should.
Output: 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: Besides, if someone raped and killed my daughter, I'd prefer they suffered the rest of their life in jail being man-raped by a bunch of rednecks and neo-nazi's than just be given the easy way out.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If I ever "murder" someone without cause, I would deserve to die.
 Sent2: "by not killing those who deserve it"....do rape victims deserve it?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If we sentence someone to life in prison, we can always free them at a later time if they are found to be innocent.
 Sent2: If they don't want to kill an innocent person, stick to life in prison.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If there was a justice system that was equally fair to all accused, made no mistakes and only executed the guilty, proponents of the death penalty could rightly cry, "Fry 'um up".
 Sent2: There shouldn't be a death penalty it isn't fair.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Capital punishment frees up jail cells: Considering how few people we execute and how many new people enter the prison system each year, I do not see this as being a very good argument.
 Sent2: Well I, as creator of this debate, think that there should not be a death penalty.
Output: Not 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: If someone is wrongly convicted of a crime and put in jail, they can be released if they're found to be innocent.
Output: Similar
Sent1: There are no children being killed, and killing a child is murder in America.
 Sent2: Murders, rapists, child pornographers, etc. literally should die for a better society.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If inmates in for life actually got life in 100% of the cases, I'd be more inclined to support a ban on capital punishment.
 Sent2: If that is the case I am against Capital Punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The question with the death penalty is not kill or give no punishment.
 Sent2: The question of the death penalty is a tricky issue.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If I die, I want to go out by firing squad.
 Sent2: In reality I wouldn't care if the death penalty were gone.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I believe that if person takes the life of another, he should lose his life.
 Sent2: 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.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: 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?
 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: 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.
 Sent2: Death penalty is then in this case a lawful murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Killing a person for them killing someone else ( I understand this is not necessarily the criteria for receiving the death penalty) makes you no better than the executed.
 Sent2: If you judge someone to die because of your moral standards, how does that make you better than them?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I have evidence that says that innocent people are convicted of crimes.
 Sent2: As far as the deterrent argument, I have said this before, and I will say it again: There is no accurate way to measure if the death penalty is deterring crime or not.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: 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.
 Sent2: if someone killed you wouldn't you want them dead?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I think I could kill someone trying to kill any one of my children.
 Sent2: If you raped and killed my kids, I would not want you to be executed.
Output: Similar
Sent1: SO in turn, there is no clear evidence indicating that there is not a detterent value to the death penalty.
 Sent2: The death penalty has never been shown to be a deterent to murder.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If law is flawed you don't ban death penalty, you fix the law.
 Sent2: The death penalty was included in that "law."
Output: Not similar
Sent1: But I oppose the death penalty because it has the capacity to kill innocent people.
 Sent2: My argument is that innocent people have been killed by the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I don't think the death penalty should be banned.
 Sent2: The way I see it, capital punishment doesn't have to be expensive at all.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: 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.
 Sent2: Most people who would be deterred already seem to be deterred by life without parole as a punishment.
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: There are many countries with lower murder rates than the U.S. and no death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The crimes meriting the death penalty are by-and-large not commited by those considering the consequences, no matter what those consequences may be.
 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: There are many countries with lower murder rates than the U.S. and no death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The death penalty is about specific crimes, not any crimes.
 Sent2: That should be a crime which should result in the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Many people contend - and prove - that it's more costly to execute a man or to keep a man on deathrow than it would be to keep him in prison for life.
 Sent2: It costs far more to execute a person than to keep him or her in prison for life.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I firmly believe that some crimes and criminals are deserving of death.
 Sent2: Well, since I believe in that there are crimes and criminals deserving of the death penalty, "tookies" execution served justice in my book.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Again, I support the death penalty for certain crimes and criminals.
 Sent2: that is why I support it for serial killers, I don't really support it for a murderer.
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: In the United States, states without the death penalty has consistently lower murder rates.
Output: Similar
Sent1: This is why I said what I said in the first place about why I'm against the death penalty.
 Sent2: Though I would not call the death penalty murder, I am personally against it.
Output: Similar
Sent1: You say that all people who commit gruesome murders are psychopaths.
 Sent2: There are also people who will tell you that the death penalty actually kills innocent people.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: 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.
 Sent2: First, it is more expensive than sentencing someone to life in prison.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Currently, the death penalty is lawful in the US, therefore it cannot be defined as murder.
 Sent2: Death penalty is then in this case a lawful murder.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The death penalty is legal murder justified by government morality and laws simply masqueraded as justice.
 Sent2: The death penalty was included in that "law."
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Actually we still kill the wrong person all the time.
 Sent2: Additionally, i hold the belif that if it is wrong for an individual to kill, then it is also wrong for the state, which is a representation of the individuals, to kill as well.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty can be viewed as legalized murder, which is ironic considering that such a punishment is only imposed because of the cruelty of the crime - murder.
 Sent2: I think the death penalty is an archaic and obsolete form of punishment, even for the crime of murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Serial killers, "How many people did you kill?"
 Sent2: Would you like to be killed for the accidental oopsies when people turn out to be innocent?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: so you weigh whatever monetary savings (if any) over the life of someone found innocent after conviction (even if rare)?
 Sent2: After all, the person you're torturing may actually be innocent.
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: This argument has been made for the death penalty also.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The reason why I'm for death penalty is because some people can be so dangerous fir the society, like serial murderer or maniac, so that they must be punished by this method.
 Sent2: Even if the death penalty does not deter serial killers, it prevents them from killing again in society or in prison.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Child Killing Pedophiles don't really deserve the right to live.
 Sent2: "by not killing those who deserve it"....do rape victims deserve it?
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: I will agree that the death penalty is too arbitrarily applied.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Someone in my family, honestly I would want that person to take the death penalty.
 Sent2: If someone kills my child, my parent, my siblings, my love, i would want them to pay the price.
Output: Similar
Sent1: if it's murder then okay... the criminal deserves the death penalty.
 Sent2: You might say the criminal deserved it, but murder is murder, whether they deserved it or not.
Output: Not 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: What we need are harsher sentences including the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: First, we must choose to use executions because they may save innocent life.
 Sent2: If they don't want to kill an innocent person, stick to life in 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: Those are the only relevant ones, seeing as my argument is that the death penalty should be changed to life imprisonment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: You cannot kill somebody just because they've broken into your house, you have to have a well founded fear of harm.
 Sent2: If you chose to kill someone who wasn't endangering your life at the moment you deserve to be killed.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: All you have done is state a proclamation that all crimes must be punished, without giving any of your reasons behind that.
 Sent2: Second reason is that prisoners, who committed very cruel crimes and have a life term punishment, shouldn't be provided by government.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: 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?
 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: The people dying from the death penalty are guilty people who have taken the lives of others.
 Sent2: Among other things, what does it say about us as a society if we kill people who not only reform there own lives, but the lives of many others?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: As far as I know, you may as well ACTUALLY believe any number of things, if you actually believe in the death penalty.
 Sent2: I certainly wouldn't count you as a friend, but I consider myself "liberal" in the way Americans use the term and yes I would oppose the death penalty in this case.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I think people suffer more when they spend their whole lives in jail.
 Sent2: Besides, if someone raped and killed my daughter, I'd prefer they suffered the rest of their life in jail being man-raped by a bunch of rednecks and neo-nazi's than just be given the easy way out.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I know the eye for an eye statement is wrong.
 Sent2: So far, I am hearing "an eye for an eye" which is just that vengeance centered sense of justice that I am arguing against.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I believe that people who have killed, raped, tortured, or have done any other extreme act of violence should get the death penalty.
 Sent2: However, as I know many disagree, I think there should be understandings for justifiable murders.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: We wouldn't incur those legal fees , or the price of paying the bill for the person that has to do the killing.
 Sent2: And sure it is at a cost to the taxpayer, but whether or not we execute someone should not be dependent upon the relative financial cost.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: And some people should be thrown away without being executed.
 Sent2: Executing people is costing this country money, lives, and dignity.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: You can't get much worse than a death penalty.
 Sent2: The death penalty is just such a sanction when considering the worste of all crimes.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Are we talking about what crimes are justifiably punished by death, or merely the validity of capital punishment as a Biblical measure?
 Sent2: And it seems that every time we start talking about the death penalty, that we end up talking about whether or not it deters crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: so you weigh whatever monetary savings (if any) over the life of someone found innocent after conviction (even if rare)?
 Sent2: A life sentence can be reversed if th convicted individual is later found innocent by new evidence.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: This argument has been made for the death penalty also.
 Sent2: There are other, much stronger arguements against the death penalty.
Output: Not similar