niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
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: 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: If someone were to torture and kill one of my kids, I don�۪t think killing them would be punishment enough.
 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: 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.
 Sent2: Oh there are about a hundred things I can think of that make the death penalty look like a day in the park.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I am very conservative and I am opposed to abortion and the death penalty.
 Sent2: Like everyone, I morn Laci Peterson's passing, but I am opposed to the death penalty for many reasons.
Output: 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: 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: The death penalty is not deterrance for the person executed.
 Sent2: Peterson could face the death penalty or life without parole.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: But the statistics don't support the idea that the death penalty is any more effective as a detterent than is a life sentence.
 Sent2: 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.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Although there is much controversy about him, I agree that prisons, especially for those for whom the death penalty could be considered, should be punishment.
 Sent2: Darknight, This is a good point that I agree with and another Pro for capital punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I believe that people who have killed, raped, tortured, or have done any other extreme act of violence should get the death penalty.
 Sent2: I assume in what follows that we, the country or the state, execute only for the crime of murder, though many capital punishment adherents would use it for other crimes, such as child rape, treason, arson, robbery and even fraud.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Ask the family members of who he killed if he deserves death.
 Sent2: And because Christ forgave the men that unjustly killed him does not conclusivly show that He was against the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I am very conservative and I am opposed to abortion and the death penalty.
 Sent2: All of the death penalty oppontents are for life in jail as opposed to the death penalty.I am sure that if some are found innocent,there are at least that many that are innocent and never set free.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: That doesn't ensure that we don't end up murdering innocent people.
 Sent2: Getting rid of the expensive appeals basically ensures that more innocent people will die.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: There are some who need to be put to death.
 Sent2: My only issue with the death penalty is the case of innocence, however there has been no innocent put to death in the united states since 1976, there has been claims but these have all been dismissed.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: But as long as they are only options, I support the criminals right to choose that particular method.
 Sent2: that is why I support it for serial killers, I don't really support it for a murderer.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: You have just shown your position why we should use the death penalty, but i have not seen the solution for people who are making crime?
 Sent2: No, if it is already known that this person made the crime, the death penalty may be used.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Personally I am more interested in the deterrent effect of capital punishment over the punishment aspect.
 Sent2: Well, I'm assuming the one with the most lasting effects (death penalty).
Output: Not similar
Sent1: And because Christ forgave the men that unjustly killed him does not conclusivly show that He was against the death penalty.
 Sent2: No he the guy who killed twitter should have to suffer in jail and think about what he done for the rest of his life, and not be given the easy way out buy the death pentaly.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I dont think staying in prison for life is more punishment.
 Sent2: I think it could be proven that putting somebody in prison for life whent ehy have requested the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: There are some who need to be put to death.
 Sent2: Should the abuser be put to death, that would be to good for him.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The first reason of abolishing the death penalty is human rights perspectives and the danger of executing innocent people .
 Sent2: There are many reasons the death penalty should be abolished.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Besides I'm not saying we should apply the death penalty in all instances of murder for example.
 Sent2: Though I would not call the death penalty murder, I am personally against it.
Output: Not 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: States without the death penalty generally have lower murder rates.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I don't think the death penalty should be banned.
 Sent2: I think only certain people deserve to have the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Living in jail for life costs less money then the death penalty.
 Sent2: Not to mention that the death penalty is more costly than simple life in prison in both money and time.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Killing the criminal would just make others angry, since there are other ways to take criminals out of the streets, like life sentences.
 Sent2: A life sentence does not prevent a murderer from murdering again.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Also, within the USA, murder rates are consistently lower in states that don't have capital punishment.
 Sent2: Look violence rates of ALL kinds are lower outside of the USA in countries with no death penalty, period.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The death penalty is not used for what it is supposed to be used for.
 Sent2: I think the death penalty should only be used in extreme cases where the accused is, without a doubt, guilty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I don't think everyone should be put to death.
 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: i think the death penalty should be abolished because some people are sentenced to deathfor a crime they might have not committed.
 Sent2: (4)Death penalty does not intimidate people from committing a crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The crime rate was higher after the death penalty than before it.
 Sent2: Also, within the USA, murder rates are consistently lower in states that don't have capital punishment.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Both the death penalty and a life sentence would have prevent further murders.
 Sent2: The death penalty is in place to prevent further crimes, not to please the victim's family.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The problem with the death penalty is eventually someone will be sentenced to death when they are in fact guilty.
 Sent2: Only if they try to murder somebody after they are in prison do they deserve the death penalty?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Does the death penalty deter evil more than life in prison?
 Sent2: Most people who would be deterred already seem to be deterred by life without parole as a punishment.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I would support the death penalty IF there was a way to ensure that it would not put innocent people to death.
 Sent2: Until then, I remain unmoved by their cries of "innocent people" being put to death.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I see no point in letting someone live who does not want to live, or letting someone die who does not want to die.
 Sent2: So I think it is better to imprison those who deserve death for life, rather than even once as a people murder the wrong person.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Life imprisonment without parole is more effective than execution, and it is cheaper.
 Sent2: Hellno is right, capital punishment should be much more cost effective than the alternative- life in prison without parole.
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: People have, and will, be executed even though they are innocent of the crime.
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: The death penalty was included in that "law."
Output: Not similar
Sent1: IMO the death penalty is about justice for the loved ones of the victims.
 Sent2: The death penalty doesn't reverse the death of the victim.
Output: Not 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: If I heard of an innocent stranger being brutally killed, I might want to see the perpetrator suffer because of the suffering of the victim - that is VENGEANCE pure and simple.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If someone killed my relative, I wouldn't want them killed, I would want them to spend the rest of their lives in hard, back breaking labor.
 Sent2: If they don't want to kill an innocent person, stick to life in prison.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If it has nothing to do with the death penalty, how could it have anything to do with lives saved by the death penalty in the first place?
 Sent2: Bleeding hearts will not accept the fact that the death penalty is a deterrent and saves innocent lives.
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 slap a guarantueed death penalty on murder then any following murderer commits the crime on pain of death which is a much better detterent.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I dont think the death penalty should be apllied in just any case.
 Sent2: I think the death penalty should only be used in extreme cases where the accused is, without a doubt, guilty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Just because you can be rehabiliated, the crime you may have done may have been so henius that society demands your removal, but not death.
 Sent2: You can't just assume the death penalty is a crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Rehabilitation is one goal that one has for punishment but other goals might include:
 Sent2: I said that the definition and what I said are the same, because the one who is being rehabilitated is still being punished with suffering or pain and it is accomplishing the goal of them learning right from wrong.
Output: Similar
Sent1: In fact, I think if Jesus did not believe in the death penalty, it would make his sacrifice that much greater, because he would be being unjustly put to death.
 Sent2: And because Christ forgave the men that unjustly killed him does not conclusivly show that He was against the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty (because of appeals) costs more than solitary confinement for life, both of which would ensure that the person would never kill again.
 Sent2: First it is more expensive to kill a person, then letting him stay for a life long imprisonment.
Output: Similar
Sent1: This is why I'm aganist the penalty as punishment.
 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: 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: I think at least if they are innocent they would be happier as I am living without that safety net than being killed because we don't think they should have a right to fight for thier lives leagally.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is sometimes claimed to save lives through deterrence.
 Sent2: Most people who would be deterred already seem to be deterred by life without parole as a punishment.
Output: Similar
Sent1: the death penalty also is premediated murder,it demeans the state and makes society more violent!
 Sent2: The death penalty demeans the moral order and execution does something
Output: Similar
Sent1: In fact, with the death penalty you get more due process than someone with a life sentence...there aren't many advocates for helping those guys out.
 Sent2: If you get a life sentence, you shouldn't have any choices whatsoever.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I think people suffer more when they spend their whole lives in jail.
 Sent2: The government shouldnt make people spend the rest of their life in prison or jail because that would be a cruel and unusual punishment.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Furthermore, any assertion that the death penalty is not a deterrent is false.
 Sent2: Therefore the argument of death as a deterent is a joke.
Output: Similar
Sent1: There are some who need to be put to death.
 Sent2: If the death penalty is not administered equally, those who have been put to death have been treated UNFAIRLY.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The people dying from the death penalty are guilty people who have taken the lives of others.
 Sent2: Killing the criminal would just make others angry, since there are other ways to take criminals out of the streets, like life sentences.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: abortion does not qualify as state murder like the death penalty.
 Sent2: Comparable countries without the death penalty have fewer murders then Texas.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I've followed this debate for years (I work in a prison), and i have never heard it suggested by anyone other than those who oppose the Penalty, that the Penalty is a deterrent.
 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: Similar
Sent1: I think that criminals view the death penalty as worse than life imprisonment and worse than temporary solitary confinement within life imprisonment - at least given the conditions in American prisons.
 Sent2: I 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: How can you justify teaching a generation of children that to stop killers from killing because killing is wrong, we should kill them?
 Sent2: So we kill killers, but in the end, end up with more murders.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I see what you mean, but i'm still against killing people .
 Sent2: If you raped and killed my kids, I would not want you to be executed.
Output: Similar
Sent1: but yes only in extreme cases, and only if we can prove the person is guilty without a doubt.
 Sent2: I think the death penalty should only be used in extreme cases where the accused is, without a doubt, guilty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If someone is bad enough to be considered for the death penalty then they must have had sure evidence that they are guilty if they are then they shouldn't deserve the right to live among people they could kill
 Sent2: 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: Similar
Sent1: Actually we still kill the wrong person all the time.
 Sent2: A trial is how we determine whether someone has done something wrong.
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 are sure they raped & killed those innocent children then we should let them die.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I think people suffer more when they spend their whole lives in jail.
 Sent2: For some people death penalty is better than life in prison, who are respect their freedom and who are consider that it is better to die than someone to judge them.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If someone keeps killing and killing and killing, we need to stop him from taking lives.
 Sent2: A life sentence does not prevent a murderer from murdering again.
Output: Similar
Sent1: but spending whole life in jail would be a better punishment
 Sent2: The government shouldnt make people spend the rest of their life in prison or jail because that would be a cruel and unusual punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: There are no children being killed, and killing a child is murder in America.
 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: This is why I'm aganist the penalty as punishment.
 Sent2: If that is the case I am against Capital Punishment.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If you accept vengeance as a reason for punishment then I understand why you would support the death penalty.
 Sent2: You can't just assume the death penalty is a crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Also, the dates of these crimes point to another point supporting capitol punishment.
 Sent2: Also, please explain how the Supreme Court can logically back up a claim that capital punishment is not a deterrent to capital crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: >_> Says the person who brought up freaking Nelson in a debate about the death penalty for murders.
 Sent2: killing a person, no matter the reason, is still murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If we can not prevent the innocent from unjust punishment, we should not have the death penalty.
 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: It wouldn't shock me if someone committed murder JUST to get those things.
 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: The problem with the death penalty is eventually someone will be sentenced to death when they are in fact guilty.
 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: Also, Texas has executed persons who were, in fact, innocent.
 Sent2: The Texas case of Lionel Herrera, like others, nationally, has been labeled, by many death penalty opponents, as an innocent executed.
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: You may think of it as an arbitrary tit-for-tat policy, but I see it as a legal, court ordered punishment handed down by our judicial system for a crime to which the death penalty is applicable.
Output: Similar
Sent1: What if there were people killing other people, escaping from jail, doing it again etc.
 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: Even the people who did the study saying that innocents had been executed admitted that they cannot prove same.
 Sent2: Obviously, if someone were found innocent before execution, they would not be executed.
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: Both the death penalty and a life sentence would have prevent further murders.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I also don't think someone has been put to death for a third degree murder.
 Sent2: I think instead of a death penalty, they should just stay in prison until they die because putting someone to death is just harsh, No matter who it is.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty doesn't need to serve as a deterrent to crime.
 Sent2: And the purpose of the death penalty is not to punish, but to deter further crime.
Output: Similar
Sent1: There is no way to determine how many murders would have been committed.
 Sent2: I believe that the final decision should be given to the bereaved; those affected by the murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: That victim has a family, that is a father, brother, sister, mother, cousin.
 Sent2: No letting the family or friends of the victim kill the convicted person might be childish revenge.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I'm also against death penalty because no one except God has the right to take person's life.
 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: Some innocent people are still sentenced to death, and that's where I see a problem.
 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: I do feel that those who murder in cold blood would be more than deserving of the death penalty.
 Sent2: I firmly believe that some crimes and criminals are deserving of death.
Output: 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: The thing is, without the death penalty there is absolutely no deterrent from committing heinous crimes.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The way I see it, capital punishment doesn't have to be expensive at all.
 Sent2: I fail to see how this proves that ���there is no question that Jesus was against the death penalty.�۝
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Life without parole costs the justice system WAAAY less than death penalty cases do.
 Sent2: Texas' system of capital punishment is less than a quarter the cost of housing a criminal for life.
Output: Similar
Sent1: There are no children being killed, and killing a child is murder in America.
 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: >_> Says the person who brought up freaking Nelson in a debate about the death penalty for murders.
 Sent2: As it is today, when someone murderers another, the death penalty is considered, as it should be.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: For some people death penalty is better than life in prison, who are respect their freedom and who are consider that it is better to die than someone to judge them.
 Sent2: As it is today, when someone murderers another, the death penalty is considered, as it should be.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Granted, someone, who bestows great harm onto a family for egregious acts, doesn't give the government the right to kill that person.
 Sent2: The government does not have the right to kill people.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Criminals need to be punished for what they have done.
 Sent2: My point was that there are ways of dealing with violent criminals, murderers even, without executing them.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I think only certain people deserve to have the death penalty.
 Sent2: I agree that the people who are killed are mostly innocent people and that those killed by the death penalty are almost certainly guilty of the crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I support the death penalty because I feel that their are crimes and criminals so heinous that they deserve death.
 Sent2: The death penalty executes felons found guilty of especially heinous crimes.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If someone is bad enough to be considered for the death penalty then they must have had sure evidence that they are guilty if they are then they shouldn't deserve the right to live among people they could kill
 Sent2: Only if they try to murder somebody after they are in prison do they deserve the death penalty?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Many, many people have already been exonerated AFTER being convicted of a capital crime.
 Sent2: People who will commit a crime with life in prison would probably still commit the crime with capital punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: This is why I said what I said in the first place about why I'm against the death penalty.
 Sent2: Like I said, I don't disagree with the theory of the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Or you could merely ignore them and concede that the death penalty is flawed, kills innocent people and costs the lives of innocents in the use of how it is funded
 Sent2: therefore the death penalty should not be used, simply because it kills innocent people.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Also, Texas has executed persons who were, in fact, innocent.
 Sent2: Texas has the most executions and the most murders as well.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is the only just punishment for their actions.
 Sent2: Show said criminal that their actions were unnacceptable to society, and therefore they must pay a penalty for their actions.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The problem with the death penalty is eventually someone will be sentenced to death when they are in fact guilty.
 Sent2: The 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 believe there are certain crimes where the death penalty is an acceptable punishment.
 Sent2: Again, I support the death penalty for certain crimes and criminals.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The question with the death penalty is not kill or give no punishment.
 Sent2: The question is should the death penalty be allowed as a form of punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Since murder is viewed as wrong, it generally makes more sense to eliminate the death penalty because murder rates are generally lower in those states.
 Sent2: In the United States, states without the death penalty has consistently lower murder rates.
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 said what I said in the first place about why I'm against the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I think that criminals view the death penalty as worse than life imprisonment and worse than temporary solitary confinement within life imprisonment - at least given the conditions in American prisons.
 Sent2: And no one said that life in prision is "much worse" then the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: So how about we stop a penalty that has executed innocents?
 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: Similar
Sent1: The crime rate was higher after the death penalty than before it.
 Sent2: States without the death penalty generally have lower murder rates.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The reasons given most often for supporting the death penalty are emotional reasons of retribution for the heinous acts of the criminal.
 Sent2: There is no reason to give that person a death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: States without the death penalty have fared BETTER in reducing their murder rates than states with the death penalty.
 Sent2: In the United States, states without the death penalty has consistently lower murder rates.
Output: Similar
Sent1: First, we must choose to use executions because they may save innocent life.
 Sent2: Whereas, if we choose not to use executions and there is a general deterrent effect, we would be sacrificing innocent lives.
Output: Similar
Sent1: God gave to government the legitimate authority to use capital punishment to restrain murder and to punish murderers.
 Sent2: Yes, the death penalty should be use as a punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: But why do you have to get rid of them by killing them.
 Sent2: if someone killed you wouldn't you want them dead?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Life is a precious thing (after all, you're proposing the death penalty because of killing) and even ONE incorrect execution is one too many.
 Sent2: If murder is wrong than so is the death penalty.
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: Yes, the death penalty should be use as a punishment.
Output: Not 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: In the United States, states without the death penalty has consistently lower murder rates.
Output: Similar
Sent1: ...and if I do someday murder someone, I should be killed.
 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 also against death penalty because no one except God has the right to take person's life.
 Sent2: Someone in my family, honestly I would want that person to take the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I believe there are certain crimes where the death penalty is an acceptable punishment.
 Sent2: I think the death penalty is an archaic and obsolete form of punishment, even for the crime of murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I don't even give a shit about the death penalty, I was just making a point.
 Sent2: Like I said, I don't disagree with the theory of the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Especially given that you have accepted that some innocent people are executed.
 Sent2: Even though you deny it, your statements show you have no problem executing innocent people.
Output: Similar
Sent1: How many people with a life sentence without parole have died an prison and been innocent?
 Sent2: The antepenultimate man to be sentenced to death was innocent.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I say that they should be killed the same way that the person(s) that they killed were.
 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: The death penalty has not been shown to be more effective than life imprisonment in deterring murder, hence we should choose life imprisonment.
 Sent2: The death penalty has never been shown to be a deterent to murder.
Output: Similar
Sent1: We could get the person who may kill in the future.
 Sent2: We must look into why the person raped a child or murdered a father.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Death penalty are given to those who have comitted a very serious crime.
 Sent2: No one who committed such an act should get the easy way out with death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: There is no reason that the death penalty, in general, should be more expensive than LWOP and, in many, if not most cases, the death penalty should be less expensive.
 Sent2: Is it reason to do away with the death penalty?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: In fact, I think if Jesus did not believe in the death penalty, it would make his sacrifice that much greater, because he would be being unjustly put to death.
 Sent2: So all in all I believe in the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The reason to be for the death penalty is because it is just; the same foundation of support for all sanctions.
 Sent2: Is it reason to do away with the death penalty?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty right now is to easy even I think.
 Sent2: The way I see it, capital punishment doesn't have to be expensive at all.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: But I oppose the death penalty because it has the capacity to kill innocent people.
 Sent2: I agree that the people who are killed are mostly innocent people and that those killed by the death penalty are almost certainly guilty of the crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: , I believe the death penalty has deterred at least some people from committing murder.
 Sent2: (4)Death penalty does not intimidate people from committing a crime.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Again, I support the death penalty for certain crimes and criminals.
 Sent2: For sheer purposes of punishing a criminal, I don't support the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Exactly how many innocent people has the death penalty killed?
 Sent2: So in reality, pushing the death penalty only ensures that more innocent people will be murdered.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I dont think staying in prison for life is more punishment.
 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: So as long as only some innocent people are killed for crimes they didn't commit then the system must be sound.
 Sent2: The studies are very clear that people are routinely convicted of crimes that they never committed, period.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I used to be for the death penalty, however two things made me question my position.
 Sent2: I will agree that the death penalty is too arbitrarily applied.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Others have said that the death penalty is biblically wrong.
 Sent2: If there was another factor, then there would have already been arguments against this study using other studies produced by the opponents of the death penalty to proved this theory wrong.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I think America should ban the death penalty because no man/woman has the right to kill anyone even if the have done something wrong, because i believe that only God should have the power to take people's lives.
 Sent2: I believe that murder is the killing of a human being.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: God gave to government the legitimate authority to use capital punishment to restrain murder and to punish murderers.
 Sent2: Death penalty is then in this case a lawful murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I am not disagreeing with punishing criminals for crimes they have committed.
 Sent2: Quite a lot of people think that criminals should be punished for the sake of punishing them, whether or not it deters anyone; I had thought you were one of them.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: 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: Once the danger is gone killing a person is simply murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If the death penalty deters murder (as you claim) then why does Europe have a lower murder rate even though they've outlawed the death penalty?
 Sent2: Well according to your own paper, it says that you can't prove that the death penalty increases the murder rate.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Death penatly is not just about money, but it is morally wrong.
 Sent2: Aside from the true moral standpoint of avoiding killing innocent people and ignoring the greater good aspect of the death penalty, the legal system is wrong because the death penalty has no deterrence.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The death penalty (because of appeals) costs more than solitary confinement for life, both of which would ensure that the person would never kill again.
 Sent2: Can life imprisonment for a definite yes, prevent a murderer from killing again?
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: The dealth penalty is not as simple as it seems.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Can life imprisonment for a definite yes, prevent a murderer from killing again?
 Sent2: Killing the criminal would just make others angry, since there are other ways to take criminals out of the streets, like life sentences.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Why is that not a completely contrived, arbitrary excuse to act just as bad as the criminal?
 Sent2: Saying the death penalty is a justified method of punishment for a crime just because the criminal is a killer himself is a completely contrived reason.
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: This is why I'm aganist the penalty as punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is useless deterrent of crime because in the states that have them, they are not any more inclined to commit a crime because the threat of death penalty particularly if it is murder.
 Sent2: Even if the death penalty does not deter serial killers, it prevents them from killing again in society or in prison.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I used to be for the death penalty, however two things made me question my position.
 Sent2: I'd rather be put to death than sit in a jail cell and rot for the rest of my life.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Like I said no criminal justice system is perfect......
 Sent2: I would say that we need to keep cold-blooded barbarism out of our justice system at all levels.
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: When a person does something horrible, we no longer see them as a human that values their life, we just see them as an epitome of hate.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: But I can't get past the fact that they'll be killed for killing someone else - it's hypocritical.
 Sent2: 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: 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: You might say the criminal deserved it, but murder is murder, whether they deserved it or not.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Serial killers, "How many people did you kill?"
 Sent2: If you are personally familiar with the hatred that accompanies a murderer, then you must know a victim's family member.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The reasons given most often for supporting the death penalty are emotional reasons of retribution for the heinous acts of the criminal.
 Sent2: Saying the death penalty is a justified method of punishment for a crime just because the criminal is a killer himself is a completely contrived reason.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: So as long as only some innocent people are killed for crimes they didn't commit then the system must be sound.
 Sent2: if someone commits any crime, then they are a criminal by definition and should die.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: An argument regarding the death penalty should be confined to discussions regarding those who have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to death.
 Sent2: The debate question asks "Should the death penalty be legalized?"
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: And no, I do not claim that there are trials that can determine innocence after execution...we hold those while they are alive, and before they are sentenced to death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Therefore the argument of death as a deterent is a joke.
 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: Similar
Sent1: There are multiple possible reasons for having a criminal justice system: deterring potential offenders, punishing actual offenders, rehabilitating offenders, removing offenders from the general population to prevent further criminality, avenging the victims of crime.
 Sent2: And the purpose of the death penalty is not to punish, but to deter further crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: This argument has been made for the death penalty also.
 Sent2: Therefore the argument of death as a deterent is a joke.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: So should we be able to impose the sentence of life without parole, all the while understanding that we may have put an innocent man in prison for life?
 Sent2: It is also possible for an innocent person to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, but nobody is making the argument to stop sending people to prison.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If it has nothing to do with the death penalty, how could it have anything to do with lives saved by the death penalty in the first place?
 Sent2: If the same murderer had been given the death penalty, and never released in the first place, he would not be able to kill again.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Many people who support the death penalty are not willing to admit that vengeance plays a role - probably because they would be uncomfortable admiting that.
 Sent2: If they are uncomfortable admitting that vengeance is the underlying reason, then perhaps they should re-think their stance on the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Well what is your decision on whether to support the death penalty?
 Sent2: If you support the death penalty and concede that an innocent man could be put to death, you must be willing to put your name in the hat, with every one else, to have the government execute you by mistake.
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: Given the scrutiny of death penalty cases, it seems that we would be more likely to lock someone up for life in prison and never uncover their innocence than we are to execute an innocent person.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Nonsense, the issue of people being put to death for crimes that they likely NEVER committed is only one issue with the death penalty.
 Sent2: I am a case by case pro, Some people simply need to be put to death for the crimes they have commited so that others are protected.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The reasons given most often for supporting the death penalty are emotional reasons of retribution for the heinous acts of the criminal.
 Sent2: There are many reasons the death penalty should be abolished.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: if it's murder then okay... the criminal deserves the death penalty.
 Sent2: Death penalty should be allowed for those who deserves it.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If we can not prevent the innocent from unjust punishment, we should not have the death penalty.
 Sent2: Whereas, if we choose not to use executions and there is a general deterrent effect, we would be sacrificing innocent lives.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The problem with the death penalty is eventually someone will be sentenced to death when they are in fact guilty.
 Sent2: What does them being released have to do with the death penalty?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I am not disagreeing with punishing criminals for crimes they have committed.
 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: some of the innocent people that have been executed in the
 Sent2: There are also people who will tell you that the death penalty actually kills innocent people.
Output: Similar
Sent1: So all in all I believe in the death penalty.
 Sent2: And no, I don't the death penalty is murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If a person commits murder, I don't believe they deserve to live.
 Sent2: So I think it is better to imprison those who deserve death for life, rather than even once as a people murder the wrong person.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: As of yet, we have not seen fact one that even one innocent person has been 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 do feel that those who murder in cold blood would be more than deserving of the death penalty.
 Sent2: And no, I don't the death penalty is murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I am very conservative and I am opposed to abortion and the death penalty.
 Sent2: I'm against abortion and nominally for the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Acutally, long ago, the executioner was a convict also sentenced to death.
 Sent2: What does this have to do with the death penalty?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Besides I'm not saying we should apply the death penalty in all instances of murder for example.
 Sent2: I dont think the death penalty should be apllied in just any case.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The death penalty is not murder, it simply killing humanely and justifiably with a legitimate cause.
 Sent2: Death penalty is then in this case a lawful murder.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Saying the death penalty is a justified method of punishment for a crime just because the criminal is a killer himself is a completely contrived reason.
 Sent2: It is called the death penalty for a reason...it is a penalty, a punishment.
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: And no one said that life in prision is "much worse" then the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: if a person kills another person it is murder, whether it is sanctioned by the state or not.
 Sent2: The government does not have the right to kill people.
Output: Similar
Sent1: So how about we stop a penalty that has executed innocents?
 Sent2: We should not even have the death penalty just on the off chance that we might execute somebody who is innocent.
Output: Similar
Sent1: if it's murder then okay... the criminal deserves the death penalty.
 Sent2: Murder is murder and those who execute the death penalty are murderers as well.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Most other first-world countries don't have the death penalty, but have lower rates of crime, just pointing that out.
 Sent2: States without the death penalty generally have lower murder rates.
Output: Similar
Sent1: if it's murder then okay... the criminal deserves the death penalty.
 Sent2: The only difference between the death penalty and murder is that the government says it's okay to kill the criminal.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Louisiana, a state with the death penalty and the highest murder rate in the country, has almost no gun control.
 Sent2: There are many countries with lower murder rates than the U.S. and no death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: There are no children being killed, and killing a child is murder in America.
 Sent2: if a person kills another person it is murder, whether it is sanctioned by the state or not.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: There are many reasons the death penalty should be abolished.
 Sent2: It is called the death penalty for a reason...it is a penalty, a punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: in fact the ones against the death penalty ARE FOR ABORTION!
 Sent2: What does this have to do with 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: You can attempt say I'm being illogical, but you have yet to explain why the death penalty is preferable to imprisonment.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I do feel that those who murder in cold blood would be more than deserving of the death penalty.
 Sent2: There are a lot of people in jail for cold blooded murder, who did not get the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Does the death penalty deter evil more than life in prison?
 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: Either way it will cost money, yet if the death penalty cut out some of it's steps it'd be less money than life imprisonment.
 Sent2: Because there's nothing to say that life imprisonment is a less harsh punishment.
Output: Not similar