niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
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: Capital punishment is killing someone as a punishment for a crime they committed.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Only some states use the death penalty, only some countries allow the death penalty.
 Sent2: Yes, the death penalty should be use as a punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: ...and if I do someday murder someone, I should be killed.
 Sent2: And no, I don't the death penalty is murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: if someone commits any crime, then they are a criminal by definition and should die.
 Sent2: Capital punishment is killing someone as a punishment for a crime they committed.
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: ...and if I do someday murder someone, I should be killed.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The majority populations of all countries may support the death penalty for some crimes (1).
 Sent2: I don't see where in your first source it says that the majority of all countries (or the majority of people in every country) support the death penalty in some cases.
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: Moreover, states without the death penalty have much lower murder rates.
Output: Similar
Sent1: And no, society is not better served by life imprisonment than the death penalty because society then learns that consequences aren't very severe for committing an act of murder.
 Sent2: Again I want to reiterate that I am not in favor of an anarchist society where there is no consequences for committing crimes, my point is that society is better served by life imprisonment than the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I'd have to do more research into the death penalty website before believing the facts they present.
 Sent2: So all in all I believe in the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Exactly how many innocent people has the death penalty killed?
 Sent2: But I oppose the death penalty because it has the capacity to kill innocent people.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The question of whether death sentence should be allowed to continue or not, is therefore dependent upon the society and in general a society that has evolved as a "civilized" society would not need such punishments.
 Sent2: America, has no doubt evolved as a civilized society, but it has terrible enemies who would work from within its society and this may be a reason for wanting to continue death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I think I could kill someone trying to kill any one of my children.
 Sent2: I do not think that a government should be unable to kill someone, simply that they almost always should not.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: There are also people who will tell you that the death penalty actually kills innocent people.
 Sent2: My argument is that innocent people have been killed by the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: therefore the death penalty should not be used, simply because it kills 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: Serial killers, "How many people did you kill?"
 Sent2: There are also people who will tell you that the death penalty actually kills innocent people.
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: Deterrence is not the only reason I support the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: So how about we stop a penalty that has executed innocents?
 Sent2: If we execute death penalty, we will not be better than murderers.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: if a person kills another person it is murder, whether it is sanctioned by the state or not.
 Sent2: The government doesn't have the right to take away someone's life, even in the case of murder.
Output: 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: As long as we sentence people to a life in prison we are also GUARANTEED to sentence an innocent person.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty right now is to easy even I think.
 Sent2: This is why I said what I said in the first place about why I'm against the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Death penalty should be allowed as it deters people from committing serious crimes such as murder.
 Sent2: The death penalty doesn't need to serve as a deterrent to crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If the death penalty were an adequate deterrent then we would not have murder.
 Sent2: politicaly correct death penalty we impose here in America may not deter crime as well as we think it should.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I don't even give a shit about the death penalty, I was just making a point.
 Sent2: This is why I'm aganist the penalty as punishment.
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: So how about we stop a penalty that has executed innocents?
Output: Not 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: 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: There are no children being killed, and killing a child is murder in America.
 Sent2: killing a person, no matter the reason, is still murder.
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: And no one said that life in prision is "much worse" then the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty has not been shown to be more effective than life imprisonment in deterring murder, hence we should choose life imprisonment.
 Sent2: 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: We let killers out of prison so they can kill again.
 Sent2: For those who say "we need to make sure they don't kill again" no one in the history of maximum security prisons has ever escaped a maximum security prison, so it's not really an issue.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: You are probably going to murder somebody; hopefully it will b in a place with the death penalty and then you will get what you deserve.
 Sent2: If you think there shouldn't be a death penalty, you're an idiot.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: After all, the person you're torturing may actually be innocent.
 Sent2: You make it sound as though if someone is innocent, of anything, they should be killed.
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: If I ever "murder" someone without cause, I would deserve to die.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: And hey, if you think man is just an animal, then the death penalty shouldn't matter to you since you can't say life has any intrinsic value (remember, you believe in relativity).
 Sent2: If you think there shouldn't be a death penalty, you're an idiot.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If you raped and killed my kids, I would not want you to be executed.
 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 these are indeed comparable, I wouldn't argue for the death penalty even in murder.
 Sent2: But I oppose the death penalty because it has the capacity to kill innocent people.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If the execution rate decreased and the murder rate increased then that explains the deterrence effect of capital punishment.
 Sent2: The death penalty as a deterrent, our murder rate loudly speaks to that.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I think I could kill someone trying to kill any one of my children.
 Sent2: If someone killed my relative, I wouldn't want them killed, I would want them to spend the rest of their lives in hard, back breaking labor.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: It is called the death penalty for a reason...it is a penalty, a punishment.
 Sent2: All of this information is the reason the Death penalty is so costly.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: In addition, it is evident that the death penalty does not deter murder rates.
 Sent2: BUT it is not apparent that death penalty lower crime rate.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I assume in what follows that we, the country or the state, execute only for the crime of murder, though many capital punishment adherents would use it for other crimes, such as child rape, treason, arson, robbery and even fraud.
 Sent2: That should be a crime which should result in the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty has been found to be a more effective deterrent to crimes against children.
 Sent2: The death penalty doesn't need to serve as a deterrent to crime.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If we can not prevent the innocent from unjust punishment, we should not have the death penalty.
 Sent2: If we continue to allow the death penalty, we are no better than the murderers and rapists that we punish with the death penalty.
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: Oh, and by the way, the criteria that I mentioned earlier was enough to kill someone for treason, so why shouldn't it be enough to kill someone for another crime?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I'm not really in favor of killing innocent people either.
 Sent2: I am willing to accept that some innocent people will fall victim, even potentially a family member.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: There is no crime which justifies others to kill as a form of punishment, and it is ineffective as a deterrent to prevent crime.
 Sent2: IE - the death penalty acts as a deterrent to other would be murderers.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The government does not have the right to kill people.
 Sent2: The government makes errors in releasing people who are still dangerous and in capturing people who are actually innocent.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The fact remains that life in prison is cheaper than sentencing one to the death penalty.
 Sent2: Does the death penalty deter evil more than life in prison?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I have heard of two instances of innocent men who were executed back in the seventies.
 Sent2: However, I do not see any moral difference in locking up an innocent person for 60 year or executing an innocent person.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I am very conservative and I am opposed to abortion and 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: Even if you think about it a second before you do it, you thought about it, and, then, it classifies it as murder.
 Sent2: You think about the unfortunate soul who is truly innocent of murder and executed anyway.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: People have been found out to be innocent after the death penalty ha already been carried out....
 Sent2: Obviously, if someone were found innocent before execution, they would not be executed.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Again, I support the death penalty for certain crimes and criminals.
 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: With all this talk about innocent people being put to death, I was wondering.
 Sent2: But on another note, I wonder whether he wouldn't rather be sentenced to death than put with the general prison population.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: You are against of violence, but have you ever thought that death penalty is also violence?
 Sent2: You can't get much worse than a death penalty.
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 think that if the murderer wants the death penalty, they should be allowed it if the victim's family agrees- but for crimes of passion and misunderstanding, no death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Personally I am more interested in the deterrent effect of capital punishment over the punishment aspect.
 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: Not similar
Sent1: When a person commits a crime, the Judicial system is responsible for determining a proportional response or penalty for the crime.
 Sent2: 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: 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: You can attempt say I'm being illogical, but you have yet to explain why the death penalty is preferable to imprisonment.
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 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: Not similar
Sent1: Only .06% of people who have killed kill again when they escape, are released, etc.
 Sent2: The government does not have the right to kill people.
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 say that they should be killed the same way that the person(s) that they killed were.
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: SO in turn, there is no clear evidence indicating that there is not a detterent value to the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: It costs far more to execute a person than to keep him or her in prison for life.
 Sent2: First, it is more expensive than sentencing someone to life in prison.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Does the death penalty deter evil more than life in prison?
 Sent2: And no one said that life in prision is "much worse" then the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: It seems that there is still a majority in this country who is for the death penalty.
 Sent2: I don't see where in your first source it says that the majority of all countries (or the majority of people in every country) support the death penalty in some cases.
Output: Similar
Sent1: >>>If we are sure they raped & killed those innocent children then we should let them die.
 Sent2: If a person wasn't convicted then they surely wouldn't be murdered by the state.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: However, as I know many disagree, I think there should be understandings for justifiable murders.
 Sent2: Like I said, I don't disagree with the theory of the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Like I said no criminal justice system is perfect......
 Sent2: When we can perfect the American Justice System more, then I would lend more support to the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: We seem to have more compassion for the victims and potential victims of murderers than we do for the murderers.
 Sent2: Odds are we are locking up more criminals than innocent victims.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: killing a person, no matter the reason, is still murder.
 Sent2: Once the danger is gone killing a person is simply murder.
Output: 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 don't believe that they should because if you kill someone, they won't have the chance to either get rehabilitated nor will they have the chance to actually regret what they have done.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is simply a legally imposed punishment given to felons who commited crimes for which the death penalty is applicable.
 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: If the execution rate decreased and the murder rate increased then that explains the deterrence effect of capital punishment.
 Sent2: Well according to your own paper, it says that you can't prove that the death penalty increases the murder rate.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I'm not really in favor of killing innocent people either.
 Sent2: Some innocent people are still sentenced to death, and that's where I see a problem.
Output: Similar
Sent1: just because someone is believed to have done something wrong doesnt mean that they are bad people who deserve to die...what if that happened to you?
 Sent2: 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
Output: Similar
Sent1: If law is flawed you don't ban death penalty, you fix the law.
 Sent2: So, in summary, you aren't against the death penalty on principle.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If you rape a kid then you shouldn't be allowed to live.
 Sent2: If you raped and killed my kids, I would not want you to be executed.
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: We let killers out of prison so they can kill again.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: But killing someone because of him killing someone is quite hypocritical.
 Sent2: Once the danger is gone killing a person is simply murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The question with the death penalty is not kill or give no punishment.
 Sent2: It is called the death penalty for a reason...it is a penalty, a punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I firmly believe that some crimes and criminals are deserving of death.
 Sent2: In any case, while I believe some criminals should just be carried into the street and shot, I don't think the death penalty is worth it in today's society.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: My argument makes it clear that innocent people need not be sentenced to death in order for the death penalty to be unjust.
 Sent2: while it is a fact that innocent people have been placed and convicted to death row condemned to die, there are however people who are guilty and should die.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: It wouldn't shock me if someone committed murder JUST to get those things.
 Sent2: If a person commits murder, I don't believe they deserve to live.
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: I think the death penalty should only be used in extreme cases where the accused is, without a doubt, guilty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Since I am not related to any death-row-inmate's victims (of murder, rape, molestation), I do not classify my desire to see them dead as vengeance.
 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: I'm pretty sure that the states with the death penalty do NOT have better crime rates or even better capital crime rates.
 Sent2: States without the death penalty have fared BETTER in reducing their murder rates than states with the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: ...and if I do someday murder someone, I should be killed.
 Sent2: Though I would not call the death penalty murder, I am personally against it.
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 see no point in letting someone live who does not want to live, or letting someone die who does not want to die.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If we execute death penalty, we will not be better than murderers.
 Sent2: If Europeans don't like the fact that we execute mass murderers in the US, then they'd better not come to the US to become a mass murderer.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If we execute death penalty, we will not be better than murderers.
 Sent2: We should not even have the death penalty just on the off chance that we might execute somebody who is innocent.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The person having been convicted of a crime punishable by death and subsequently sentenced to death should be put to death.
 Sent2: No, if it is already known that this person made the crime, the death penalty may be used.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Can life imprisonment for a definite yes, prevent a murderer from killing again?
 Sent2: But life imprisonment without parole also deters the criminal from recommitting.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Only some states use the death penalty, only some countries allow the death penalty.
 Sent2: Too much racism in this country to have the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I don't think the death penalty should be banned.
 Sent2: This is why I said what I said in the first place about why I'm against the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: killing a person, no matter the reason, is still murder.
 Sent2: There is no reason to give that person a death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: As long as we sentence people to a life in prison we are also GUARANTEED to sentence an innocent person.
 Sent2: First, it is more expensive than sentencing someone to life in prison.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I think death penalties should be allowed for harsh offenses.
 Sent2: I don't believe the death penalty should be allowed for circumstantial evidenc.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I believe that murder is the killing of a human being.
 Sent2: However, as I know many disagree, I think there should be understandings for justifiable murders.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Some crimes are so terrible, life in prison just isn't enough.
 Sent2: People who commit bad crimes shouldn't be allowed to suffer in prison for the rest of their life.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Sorry for the length of the post, but I hope it helps you understand why I oppose capital 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: But life imprisonment without parole also deters the criminal from recommitting.
 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: 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: The death sentence has been used since the beginning of the United States, and rarely, if ever, has there been an occurrence in which someone avenges the death of a murderer or rapist.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: 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 the death penalty were an adequate deterrent then we would not have murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: That right to life was taken away, I agree, but we will not accomplish anything if we kill someone else.
 Sent2: If someone keeps killing and killing and killing, we need to stop him from taking lives.
Output: Similar
Sent1: You say that all people who commit gruesome murders are psychopaths.
 Sent2: No one said we are perfect, but neither should be lenient towards people who commit horrible crimes.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: OK Jim, how can you disagree with my use of the word deterrent and turn around and say "I think the death penalty is a detergent.
 Sent2: Like I said, I don't disagree with the theory of the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is an act of justice, yes justice, which while unable to supplement for the losses of others, can secure the isolation of a convicted criminal and also deliver a punishment for the crime.
 Sent2: That should be a crime which should result in the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: As far as the deterrent argument, I have said this before, and I will say it again: There is no accurate way to measure if the death penalty is deterring crime or not.
 Sent2: 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: There would be executions for murderers and jail time for others.
 Sent2: What if there were people killing other people, escaping from jail, doing it again etc.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I'm not really in favor of killing innocent people either.
 Sent2: I find it rather odd that many of the countries that ban the death penalty allow abortion as if killing a killer is worse than killing an innocent life.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The only reason the death penalty is more expensive is because all the liberals want it banned so they make it as expensive as possible.
 Sent2: All of this information is the reason the Death penalty is so costly.
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: First it is more expensive to kill a person, then letting him stay for a life long imprisonment.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Agreed, I just don't share their beliefs as to why the penalty should be stopped.
 Sent2: I will agree that the death penalty is too arbitrarily applied.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is gives the ability to off killers and murderers, as, if they were given life in parole, they have the ability to escape and continue their crimes.
 Sent2: If a criminal asks for the death penalty, give them a psychiatric evaluation to determine their mental state.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Besides I'm not saying we should apply the death penalty in all instances of murder for example.
 Sent2: I will agree that the death penalty is too arbitrarily applied.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If you raped and killed my kids, I would not want you to be executed.
 Sent2: I highly doubt the backing of why you personally would want the death penalty invoked is because you're worried at home that a mass murderer is going to escape and kill you or someone you love... seriously?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: There's no evidence that it actually prevents any crime (I assume you can, after all, get out of it if you admit guilt immediately and do a lot of butt-kissing, so fear of death wouldn�۪t be a factor?)
 Sent2: You can't just assume the death penalty is a crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: By killing a person who murdered someone, you are just doing the same thing you are punishing him/her for.
 Sent2: You make it sound as though if someone is innocent, of anything, they should be killed.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: So, seems to me that when you make death a quick (as in timely) and certain punishment, there is most definitely a deterent effect.
 Sent2: I feel as though you're implying that the death penalty is an effective crime deterrent.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The death penalty executes felons found guilty of especially heinous crimes.
 Sent2: That should be a crime which should result in the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Hellno is right, capital punishment should be much more cost effective than the alternative- life in prison without parole.
 Sent2: I am advocating life in prison without the option of parole.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: OF THE VICTIM would be able to visit or at least know they're family members are alive if the criminal hadn't KILLED THEM!!
 Sent2: They support it because killing murderers is the right thing to do.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I dont think the death penalty should be apllied in just any case.
 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: The person having been convicted of a crime punishable by death and subsequently sentenced to death should be put to death.
 Sent2: if someone commits any crime, then they are a criminal by definition and should die.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: We should not even have the death penalty just on the off chance that we might execute somebody who is innocent.
 Sent2: 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: But I oppose the death penalty because it has the capacity to kill innocent people.
 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: I think there should be a death penalty because, all those innocent people getting killed for no damn reason is unfair.
 Sent2: My argument is that innocent people have been killed by the death penalty.
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: while it is a fact that innocent people have been placed and convicted to death row condemned to die, there are however people who are guilty and should die.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: People generally think that the death penalty is worse than life without parole (certainly most criminals seem to think so).
 Sent2: As it is today, when someone murderers another, the death penalty is considered, as it should be.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: We make ourselves less by doing the same as the murder convict - that is, not valuing a human life.
 Sent2: There should no be a death penalty, since by taking a human's life, we are not saving it.
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: Louisiana, a state with the death penalty and the highest murder rate in the country, has almost no gun control.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: First it is more expensive to kill a person, then letting him stay for a life long imprisonment.
 Sent2: If someone keeps killing and killing and killing, we need to stop him from taking lives.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: BUT it is not apparent that death penalty lower crime rate.
 Sent2: There's absolutely ZERO evidence that having a death penalty statute causes a lower crime rate, period.
Output: Similar
Sent1: In addition, it is evident that the death penalty does not deter murder rates.
 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: this is due to not only to multiple people killed by one person, but also the numerous unsolved cases each year.
 Sent2: I would define mass murder as either a) The person killed multiple people who had no non-geographical connection or b) The person killed people at multiple times.
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: while it is a fact that innocent people have been placed and convicted to death row condemned to die, there are however people who are guilty and should die.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: In all cases, the first punishment shouldn't be the death penalty.
 Sent2: Everything that is needed for an ordinary trial is the same for a Death Penalty case, only more so.
Output: Not 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: while it is a fact that innocent people have been placed and convicted to death row condemned to die, there are however people who are guilty and should die.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If they know they'll die if caught, they'll likely kill more rape victims and children.
 Sent2: (Assault would not be one of them unless it caused death or was a sexual assault on a child.)
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: "We know for a FACT that innocent people have been put to death already"- then give me their names.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If somebody is completely innocent and they are executed for a crime they didn't commit (which, with forensics these days, probably will never happen again), that is a problem.
 Sent2: Obviously, if someone were found innocent before execution, they would not be executed.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Also, Texas has executed persons who were, in fact, innocent.
 Sent2: Obviously, if someone were found innocent before execution, they would not be executed.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: You might say the criminal deserved it, but murder is murder, whether they deserved it or not.
 Sent2: Only if they try to murder somebody after they are in prison do they deserve the death penalty?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Only psychopaths will deterrence not work because most people value their life over others first so the deterrence of the death penalty is inherent.
 Sent2: IE - the death penalty acts as a deterrent to other would be murderers.
Output: Similar
Sent1: if a person kills another person it is murder, whether it is sanctioned by the state or not.
 Sent2: Granted, someone, who bestows great harm onto a family for egregious acts, doesn't give the government the right to kill that person.
Output: Similar
Sent1: There has been so much cases of people who have been executed, only to be found innocent after their death.
 Sent2: "We know for a FACT that innocent people have been put to death already"- then give me their names.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Exactly how many innocent people has the death penalty killed?
 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: Living in jail for life costs less money then 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: The truth is that the Death Penalty punishes those who have convicted a crime of extreme severity, not any criminal who commits a crime.
 Sent2: The death penalty is about specific crimes, not any crimes.
Output: Similar
Sent1: This is why I said what I said in the first place about why I'm against the death penalty.
 Sent2: I don't see where in your first source it says that the majority of all countries (or the majority of people in every country) support the death penalty in some cases.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Second reason is that prisoners, who committed very cruel crimes and have a life term punishment, shouldn't be provided by government.
 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 think I could kill someone trying to kill any one of my children.
 Sent2: If I ever "murder" someone without cause, I would deserve to die.
Output: Not 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: As long as we sentence people to a life in prison we are also GUARANTEED to sentence an innocent person.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If we kill a few innocent lifes in the process, thats fine by me as long as the rightfuly convicted felons are killed VIA leathal injection and/or electric chair.
 Sent2: Like I said, if the person isn't convicted, then they will not be murdered in the electric chair, or by lethal injection.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Some innocent people are still sentenced to death, and that's where I see a problem.
 Sent2: How many people with a life sentence without parole have died an prison and been innocent?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Even if you think about it a second before you do it, you thought about it, and, then, it classifies it as murder.
 Sent2: If you think there shouldn't be a death penalty, you're an idiot.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Also, within the USA, murder rates are consistently lower in states that don't have capital punishment.
 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: Some crimes are so terrible, life in prison just isn't enough.
 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 think the death penalty should only be used when there is undeniable proof against the suspect.
 Sent2: I don't think everyone should be put to death.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Since there are many people sentenced for murder that are actually innocent (~10% who were sentenced to death who were proved innocent in appeal), you would be causing a lot more innocent deaths than you would be saving.
 Sent2: The notion that innocent people may be sentenced to death is not a death penalty problem, it is a judicial system problem.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The Texas case of Lionel Herrera, like others, nationally, has been labeled, by many death penalty opponents, as an innocent executed.
 Sent2: Texas has the most executions and the most murders as well.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Did you study when these people were exonerated and in what year were they placed on the death penalty?
 Sent2: I am tired of seeing people on death row for 20 or 30 years before they are put to death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: 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: You can attempt say I'm being illogical, but you have yet to explain why the death penalty is preferable to imprisonment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If capital punishment works (deterrent), why do we have such a high murder rate per capita?
 Sent2: The death penalty as a deterrent, our murder rate loudly speaks to that.
Output: Similar
Sent1: In every state that retains the death penalty, jurors have the option of sentencing convicted capital murderers to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
 Sent2: Acutally, long ago, the executioner was a convict also sentenced to death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I'm not suggesting that criminals cannot and do not change...of course they do.
 Sent2: I say if someone gets life w/o parole, they should be put into a real jail, rather than the country clubs many criminals go to.
Output: Not 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: If you raped and killed my kids, I would not want you to be executed.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: After all, the person you're torturing may actually be innocent.
 Sent2: Do you want a innocent person to pay with their life for your vengence which doesn't erase the crime?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I have evidence that says that innocent people are convicted of crimes.
 Sent2: The evidence is overwhelming that some death penalty opponents were stating that the 102, nationwide, were actually innocent people, who had no connection to the murders.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Second, he killed someone during the commission of another crime.
 Sent2: Some crimes are so heinous that the person who committed the crime deserves to die: I would only agree to this if the execution erased the crime that was committed in the first place.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: 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: But life imprisonment without parole also deters the criminal from recommitting.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Deterrence is not the only reason I support the death penalty.
 Sent2: Many people argue that the death penalty is not a detterence.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The abolishment of the death penalty is considered an advancement in most societies.
 Sent2: Death penalty should be abolished because i think this method is irreversible.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: 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.
 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: I am very conservative and I am opposed to abortion and the death penalty.
 Sent2: I have a lot of sympathy for ex-convicts, but I still favor the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: People have been found out to be innocent after the death penalty ha already been carried out....
 Sent2: You need to find lots more for the death penalty to save more lives than innocents that have been executed by it.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: >_> Says the person who brought up freaking Nelson in a debate about the death penalty for murders.
 Sent2: Last time I checked, killing doesn't bring persons back to life, so the only reason for the death penalty seems to be revenge.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Criminals need to be punished for what they have done.
 Sent2: In the case of the death penalty, the crime committed is so terrible that society is no longer concerned with teaching a lesson; they simply want to be free of these terrible criminals.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty should not be catagorized as a deterrent.
 Sent2: Therefore the argument of death as a deterent is a joke.
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: Though I would not call the death penalty murder, I am personally against it.
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: How many people with a life sentence without parole have died an prison and been innocent?
Output: Similar
Sent1: I do believe in the death Penalty, eye for and eye.
 Sent2: The way I see it, capital punishment doesn't have to be expensive at all.
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 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: With all this talk about innocent people being put to death, I was wondering.
 Sent2: Until then, I remain unmoved by their cries of "innocent people" being put to death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I think only certain people deserve to have the death penalty.
 Sent2: The death penalty right now is to easy even I think.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If someone keeps killing and killing and killing, we need to stop him from taking lives.
 Sent2: After we get through that, if he still retains the death penalty, it's a lot cheaper to kill him than to keep him up 'til he dies in prison.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I also don't think someone has been put to death for a third degree murder.
 Sent2: As it is today, when someone murderers another, the death penalty is considered, as it should be.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: They support it because killing murderers is the right thing to do.
 Sent2: My point was that there are ways of dealing with violent criminals, murderers even, without executing them.
Output: 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: I would support the death penalty IF there was a way to ensure that it would not put innocent people to death.
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: As of yet, we have not seen fact one that even one innocent person has been put to death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: killing a person, no matter the reason, is still murder.
 Sent2: Oh, and by the way, the criteria that I mentioned earlier was enough to kill someone for treason, so why shouldn't it be enough to kill someone for another crime?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Implementing the death penalty will not eliminate it but help to reduce the rate of crime.
 Sent2: If the execution rate decreased and the murder rate increased then that explains the deterrence effect of capital punishment.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I think there should be a death penalty because, all those innocent people getting killed for no damn reason is unfair.
 Sent2: There is no way that I believe it is okay to execute innocent people because of a flawed system.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I say that they should be killed the same way that the person(s) that they killed were.
 Sent2: Like I said, if the person isn't convicted, then they will not be murdered in the electric chair, or by lethal injection.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I don't even give a shit about the death penalty, I was just making a point.
 Sent2: I don't think everyone should be put to death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Acutally, long ago, the executioner was a convict also sentenced to death.
 Sent2: The person having been convicted of a crime punishable by death and subsequently sentenced to death should be put to death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty was included in that "law."
 Sent2: (If a murderer is released and murders again, that has nothing to do with the death penalty, rather the sentencing laws, so doesn't contribute to the number of lives saved by the death penalty).
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If I die, I want to go out by firing squad.
 Sent2: I see no point in letting someone live who does not want to live, or letting someone die who does not want to die.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I don't even give a shit about the death penalty, I was just making a point.
 Sent2: The death penalty right now is to easy even I think.
Output: Not similar