niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
Sent1: Yes there should be a death penalty but it should only be used in extreme circumstances like treason, mass murder, ordering murders from within prison, and killing someone in prison.
 Sent2: 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: 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: I am advocating life in prison without the option of parole.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: so you weigh whatever monetary savings (if any) over the life of someone found innocent after conviction (even if rare)?
 Sent2: 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: I am very conservative and I am opposed to abortion and the death penalty.
 Sent2: I am not a big proponent of the death penalty.
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 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: Similar
Sent1: I also don't think someone has been put to death for a third degree murder.
 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 death penalty has been used as a scapegoat for many people who are against executions.
 Sent2: But if Capital punishment is used, it has to be used in all situations according to the precedent set, i.e. if the next person did not kill anyone and is wrongly convicted, he too must be executed.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Firstly there has been no proof that an Innocent man has ever been placed on death row.
 Sent2: The list of men on death row who were found to be innocent and released is long and growing, and we can only guess how many innocents have been put to death.
Output: Similar
Sent1: 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: life in jail is better than death penalty...at least they would get the chance to suffer longer...maybe that would give them a sense of what they did...or aware them of how life works.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I am "for" capital punishment... but if a criminal shows a desire for death over a life sentence, I prefer to be sadistic.
 Sent2: I would prefer to live in a society where no death penalty was handed out cause there was no crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I say if they try to kill/escape from life w/o parole in prison that's all we should need for the death penalty.
 Sent2: I was saying, if the death penalty wasn't legit, and life imprisonment was actually the righteous thing to do, the concern of escapes shouldn't keep us from doing what's right.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I'm not advocating getting rid of all punishment, just the most extreme form.
 Sent2: I am not a big proponent of the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: However, I think that the government needs to provide undeinable proof of their guilt in order to be able to sentence someone to death.
 Sent2: I 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: There are some who need to be put to death.
 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: if someone commits any crime, then they are a criminal by definition and should die.
 Sent2: The death of a criminal prevents him from committing any further crimes.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: So what you're saying is, even if the guy we're sending to the chair didn't actually commit a murder, he should still die because he was an asshole in his personal life.
 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: The judge may or may not feel the death penaly is warranted.
 Sent2: Many people find some crimes heinous enough to warrent the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty has a foundation in justice and it spares more innocent lives.
 Sent2: Bleeding hearts will not accept the fact that the death penalty is a deterrent and saves innocent lives.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I have evidence that says that innocent people are convicted of crimes.
 Sent2: Many, many people have already been exonerated AFTER being convicted of a capital crime.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Because there's nothing to say that life imprisonment is a less harsh punishment.
 Sent2: I was saying, if the death penalty wasn't legit, and life imprisonment was actually the righteous thing to do, the concern of escapes shouldn't keep us from doing what's right.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: They support it because killing murderers is the right thing to do.
 Sent2: We let killers out of prison so they can kill again.
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: Also, within the USA, murder rates are consistently lower in states that don't have capital punishment.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Exactly the sort of person that we might want put to death by the justice system.
 Sent2: There are some who need to be put to death.
Output: 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: I guess the question begs to be asked to my friends on the left is If life in prisonment is so much worse then the death penalty why do you think most prisoners on death row would choose that option?
Output: Similar
Sent1: If we execute death penalty, we will not be better than murderers.
 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: The death penalty is the best possible deterrent for crime.
 Sent2: The death penalty doesn't need to serve as a deterrent to crime.
Output: Similar
Sent1: There are also people who will tell you that the death penalty actually kills innocent people.
 Sent2: Hitler killed a whole race, you are basically saying you don't mind if we kill a bunch of innocent people as long as we get guilty people as well.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Exactly how many innocent people has the death penalty killed?
 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: If we execute death penalty, we will not be better than murderers.
 Sent2: If the death penalty were an adequate deterrent then we would not have murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty right now is to easy even I think.
 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 think the death penalty should be banned.
 Sent2: I think America should ban the death penalty because no man/woman has the right to kill anyone even if the have done something wrong, because i believe that only God should have the power to take people's lives.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Capital punishment is killing someone as a punishment for a crime they committed.
 Sent2: Death penalty are given to those who have comitted a very serious crime.
Output: 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: If you think there shouldn't be a death penalty, you're an idiot.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Actually we still kill the wrong person all the time.
 Sent2: We could get the person who may kill in the future.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Deterrence is not the only reason I support the death penalty.
 Sent2: Is it reason to do away with the death penalty?
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: All of this information is the reason the Death penalty is so costly.
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: The first twenty states with higher murder rates all have the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Both the death penalty and a life sentence would have prevent further murders.
 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: The few cases that convict innocent people are becoming even fewer.
 Sent2: If it has ever happened that a man convicted of murder was legally released, and killed yet again, one (or even a few) incident is laughable in the face of the number of innocent people put on death row.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: ...and if I do someday murder someone, I should be killed.
 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: However, one advantage with the Death Penalty is you can use it as leverage in plea bargains.
 Sent2: Yes, the death penalty should be use as a punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Death penalty cases cost way more because they usual go through a series of costly appeals.
 Sent2: Death penalty cases involve a lot of appeals and them lawyers are really expensive.
Output: Similar
Sent1: As it is today, when someone murderers another, the death penalty is considered, as it should be.
 Sent2: As of yet, we have not seen fact one that even one innocent person has been put to death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I do not think that a government should be unable to kill someone, simply that they almost always should not.
 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: if a person kills another person it is murder, whether it is sanctioned by the state or not.
 Sent2: If a person wasn't convicted then they surely wouldn't be murdered by the state.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is not used for what it is supposed to be used for.
 Sent2: To summarize, I think the death penalty should be used, but only in extreme cases.
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: Though I would not call the death penalty murder, I am personally against it.
Output: Similar
Sent1: People have been found out to be innocent after the death penalty ha already been carried out....
 Sent2: some of the innocent people that have been executed in the
Output: Similar
Sent1: Others have said that the death penalty is biblically wrong.
 Sent2: Other countries not having it doesn't say anything about the morality of the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If a person is deterred from commiting a crime it is because fear in that person's mind has prevented him from commiting the crime.
 Sent2: in a sense, the person committing the crime is deterred because he wold bear the burden of sin, which is both the consequence and punishment.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I say that they should be killed the same way that the person(s) that they killed were.
 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: If we can not prevent the innocent from unjust punishment, we should not have the death penalty.
 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: If they know they'll die if caught, they'll likely kill more rape victims and children.
 Sent2: >>>If we are sure they raped & killed those innocent children then we should let them die.
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: Therefore, people will think twice before they choose to commit a crime and also, the death penalty has been proven to deter the crime rate.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If they know they'll die if caught, they'll likely kill more rape victims and children.
 Sent2: If a person just raped someone (this is just an example) they shouldn't be killed for it, but something like a mass murdering or serial killing should be dealt with by putting them to death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Besides I'm not saying we should apply the death penalty in all instances of murder for example.
 Sent2: To summarize, I think the death penalty should be used, but only in extreme cases.
Output: 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: People who will commit a crime with life in prison would probably still commit the crime with capital punishment.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Only if they try to murder somebody after they are in prison do they deserve the death penalty?
 Sent2: If a person just raped someone (this is just an example) they shouldn't be killed for it, but something like a mass murdering or serial killing should be dealt with by putting them to death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: States without the death penalty have fared BETTER in reducing their murder rates than states with the death penalty.
 Sent2: Moreover, states without the death penalty have much lower murder rates.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Well I think that if someone commits a crime worthy of the death penalty they should get a sentence for life that way they can't be a repeat offender.
 Sent2: Capital punishment is killing someone as a punishment for a crime they committed.
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: The death penalty has never been shown to be a deterent to murder.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The death penalty has never been shown to be a deterent to murder.
 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: Murder is murder and those who execute the death penalty are murderers as well.
 Sent2: Death penalty is then in this case a lawful murder.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I believe there are certain crimes where the death penalty is an acceptable punishment.
 Sent2: I think only certain people deserve to have the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: (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).
 Sent2: A life sentence does not prevent a murderer from murdering again.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: In all honesty im glad i am not someone who has to decide murder as punishment for someone who has committed crimes.
 Sent2: Capital punishment is killing someone as a punishment for a crime they committed.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: What I fail to understand is why citizens who are personally uninvolved with a capital crime scream for the death penalty.
 Sent2: Though I would not call the death penalty murder, I am personally against it.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: God specifically gives the government permission to punish murderers by death.
 Sent2: God gave to government the legitimate authority to use capital punishment to restrain murder and to punish murderers.
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 wasn't convicted then they surely wouldn't be murdered by the state.
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: Is it reason to do away with the death penalty?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I say that they should be killed the same way that the person(s) that they killed were.
 Sent2: I'm not saying that a child's life is worth more than an adults, I'm saying if they killed any one they forfeit their life, because they in return lose what they took from someone else.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: In my opinion the death penalty is the very wrong way to work against criminal activity like murdering!
 Sent2: If murder is wrong than so is the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The people dying from the death penalty are guilty people who have taken the lives of others.
 Sent2: while it is a fact that innocent people have been placed and convicted to death row condemned to die, there are however people who are guilty and should die.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The crime rate was higher after the death penalty than before it.
 Sent2: Moreover, states without the death penalty have much lower murder rates.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Well I think that if someone commits a crime worthy of the death penalty they should get a sentence for life that way they can't be a repeat offender.
 Sent2: I firmly believe that some crimes and criminals are deserving of death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Life without parole lets you fix that mistake since they can be released if they are found innocent - not so with the death penalty.
 Sent2: What does them being released have to do with the death penalty?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Because we are all potential victims of violent crime, and I believe that there are violent crimes deserving of the death penalty.
 Sent2: I firmly believe that some crimes and criminals are deserving of death.
Output: Similar
Sent1: In addition, it is evident that the death penalty does not deter murder rates.
 Sent2: The death penalty has never been shown to be a deterent to murder.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The death penalty is not deterrance for the person executed.
 Sent2: Many people argue that the death penalty is not a detterence.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The death penalty executes felons found guilty of especially heinous crimes.
 Sent2: Murder is murder and those who execute the death penalty are murderers as well.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I'm not saying that a child's life is worth more than an adults, I'm saying if they killed any one they forfeit their life, because they in return lose what they took from someone else.
 Sent2: 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: If these are indeed comparable, I wouldn't argue for the death penalty even in murder.
 Sent2: I'm pro-death penalty because there is no atonement for murder.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I see what you mean, but i'm still against killing people .
 Sent2: The point is that people who care about you will suffer more if you die than if you are tortured or raped.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Executing people is costing this country money, lives, and dignity.
 Sent2: The cost of execution is dependant on the state the prisoner is to be tried and executed in.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If they don't want to kill an innocent person, stick to life in prison.
 Sent2: But it costs more, kills more innocents, and has no more advantages to life in prison.
Output: Similar
Sent1: People convicted in those crimes had nothing to do with DNA but police errors upon which they were exonerated.This took place in a time when sentencing disparity was present.
 Sent2: Many, many people have already been exonerated AFTER being convicted of a capital crime.
Output: Similar
Sent1: There are no children being killed, and killing a child is murder in America.
 Sent2: Child Killing Pedophiles don't really deserve the right to live.
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 think the death penalty is an archaic and obsolete form of punishment, even for the crime of murder.
Output: Similar
Sent1: You are against of violence, but have you ever thought that death penalty is also violence?
 Sent2: It seems that you're assuming the correlation between crime rate and countries with capital punishment is that the death penalty encourages crime.
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: 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: Not similar
Sent1: If it is not, then we should not be putting people on trial for murder.
 Sent2: So we kill killers, but in the end, end up with more murders.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Since there is no clear evidence indicating that there is any deterrent value to the death penalty, I have trouble rationalizing it as a punishment.
 Sent2: 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: We should not even have the death penalty just on the off chance that we might execute somebody who is innocent.
 Sent2: People use the argument that we should not execute people based on the possibility that they may be innocent, but they could care less if we lock someone up for life who may be innocent.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The fact remains that life in prison is cheaper than sentencing one to the death penalty.
 Sent2: And no one said that life in prision is "much worse" then the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Only .06% of people who have killed kill again when they escape, are released, etc.
 Sent2: What if they don't kill anyone in their escape attempt?
Output: Similar
Sent1: I think people suffer more when they spend their whole lives in jail.
 Sent2: - but because of changed laws, there have been people who have been set free even though they were supposed to be in jail for life.
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Output: Not similar
Sent1: In every state that retains the death penalty, jurors have the option of sentencing convicted capital murderers to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
 Sent2: Both the death penalty and a life sentence would have prevent further murders.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Living in jail for life costs less money then the death penalty.
 Sent2: Executing people is costing this country money, lives, and dignity.
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: There is absolutely ZERO evidence that the death penalty deters crime.
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: In all cases, the first punishment shouldn't be the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: There are many countries with lower murder rates than the U.S. and no death penalty.
 Sent2: In the United States, states without the death penalty has consistently lower murder rates.
Output: Similar
Sent1: but yes only in extreme cases, and only if we can prove the person is guilty without a doubt.
 Sent2: Only in severe cases where there isn't a doubt that the person is guilty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If we don't stop the death penalty now, we will put innocent people to death while we try to fix the problems.
 Sent2: If we don't stop the death penalty before we try to fix it, the imperfect system will continue to convict innocent people while we determine what is best for it.
Output: Similar
Sent1: some of the innocent people that have been executed in the
 Sent2: People have, and will, be executed even though they are innocent of the crime.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Exactly how many innocent people has the death penalty killed?
 Sent2: therefore the death penalty should not be used, simply because it kills innocent people.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The notion that innocent people may be sentenced to death is not a death penalty problem, it is a judicial system problem.
 Sent2: A perfect judiciary system would not sentence innocent people, and would alleviate all problems with the death penalty.
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: Living in jail for life costs less money then the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: And no, I don't the death penalty is murder.
 Sent2: I'm pro-death penalty because there is no atonement for murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: As of yet, we have not seen fact one that even one innocent person has been put to death.
 Sent2: The list of men on death row who were found to be innocent and released is long and growing, and we can only guess how many innocents have been put to death.
Output: Similar
Sent1: (Almost) nothing is heinous enough to warrant the death penalty.
 Sent2: Many people find some crimes heinous enough to warrent the death penalty.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Also, within the USA, murder rates are consistently lower in states that don't have capital punishment.
 Sent2: States without the death penalty generally have lower murder rates.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If we continue to allow the death penalty, we are no better than the murderers and rapists that we punish with the death penalty.
 Sent2: If we execute death penalty, we will not be better than murderers.
Output: Similar
Sent1: So all in all I believe in the death penalty.
 Sent2: I do believe in the death Penalty, eye for and eye.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If these are indeed comparable, I wouldn't argue for the death penalty even in murder.
 Sent2: And no, I don't the death penalty is murder.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Death penalty should be allowed as it deters people from committing serious crimes such as murder.
 Sent2: Death penalty are given to those who have comitted a very serious crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Also, within the USA, murder rates are consistently lower in states that don't have capital punishment.
 Sent2: Moreover, states without the death penalty have much lower murder rates.
Output: Similar
Sent1: My argument is that innocent people have been killed by the death penalty.
 Sent2: My argument makes it clear that innocent people need not be sentenced to death in order for the death penalty to be unjust.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: To summarize, I think the death penalty should be used, but only in extreme 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: We shouldn't just kill someone if they commit a crime.
 Sent2: Capital punishment is killing someone as a punishment for a crime they committed.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Well I think that if someone commits a crime worthy of the death penalty they should get a sentence for life that way they can't be a repeat offender.
 Sent2: If a person commits murder, I don't believe they deserve to live.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Killing a person for them killing someone else ( I understand this is not necessarily the criteria for receiving the death penalty) makes you no better than the executed.
 Sent2: You make it sound as though if someone is innocent, of anything, they should be killed.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: A life seems to be a good price for a serious enough crime.
 Sent2: Some crimes are so terrible, life in prison just isn't enough.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Yeah, including the human judgment that says that the death penalty is wrong.
 Sent2: My conscience says that it the death penalty is immoral.
Output: Similar
Sent1: From what I have read, there has been no conclusive evidence of an innocent person killed by the death penalty since 1900.
 Sent2: By the way, I believe I�۪m correct in saying there has not been an innocent person put to death since 1900.
Output: Similar
Sent1: This is why I said the punishment should be decided by the victim or the victims family, and to my knowledge there is nothing in the bible that says that only the state can administer punishment.
 Sent2: Someone in my family, honestly I would want that person to take the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: You do realize that if they do murder somebody while they are in prison, it will most likely be another prisoner, since the guards are armed?
 Sent2: Killing a person for them killing someone else ( I understand this is not necessarily the criteria for receiving the death penalty) makes you no better than the executed.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: 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: Does the death penalty deter evil more than life in prison?
Output: Similar
Sent1: The majority populations of all countries may support the death penalty for some crimes (1).
 Sent2: Over 40 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes since 1990.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Because we are all potential victims of violent crime, and I believe that there are violent crimes deserving of the death penalty.
 Sent2: I think the death penalty is an archaic and obsolete form of punishment, even for the crime of murder.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I'm against captial punishment for the reasons that wjim1269 gave and also I think that just because someone murders someone it doesn't mean they should automatically forfeit their own life.
 Sent2: When they are about to be shot just think what would be happening, some unlucky person would be dealing with the fact that they were going to have to take someone's life.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: By not giving the death penalty to a slaughtering murderer, we are telling the world that the life of this murderer is worth more than that of his victim.
 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: 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: Back to reality, we convict the wrong person all the time, and we've set up a system where death penalty is actually more expensive than life in prison.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If it must be, then we shall find a way to improve these peoples habits, not kill them because they aren't 'like us'.
 Sent2: save the money...feed starving children and free this "bad guy"...let the families find them...kill him for us for free!
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Oh I'm not saying that the govenrment should do away with the death penalty on these grounds, I'm saying that Christian people should oppose it, you said it yourself.
 Sent2: I 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: I dont think the death penalty should be apllied in just any case.
 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: I feel as though you're implying that the death penalty is an effective crime deterrent.
 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: Life incarceration will never let him kill again, and its cheaper.
 Sent2: Can life imprisonment for a definite yes, prevent a murderer from killing again?
Output: Similar
Sent1: If these are indeed comparable, I wouldn't argue for the death penalty even in murder.
 Sent2: I think the death penalty is an archaic and obsolete form of punishment, even for the crime of murder.
Output: Similar
Sent1: So if we can assume that innocent people are convicted in capital punishment cases, shouldn't we be free to assume that innocent people are being convicted in non-capital punishment cases as well?
 Sent2: If we don't stop the death penalty before we try to fix it, the imperfect system will continue to convict innocent people while we determine what is best for it.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The Death penalty does not work because the kind of people that murder will not stop and think of the consequences before their actions.
 Sent2: There has been so much cases of people who have been executed, only to be found innocent after their death.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: You can't get much worse than a death penalty.
 Sent2: You can't just assume the death penalty is a crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: But killing someone because of him killing someone is quite hypocritical.
 Sent2: No letting the family or friends of the victim kill the convicted person might be childish revenge.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The non-repeat offenders are typically people who committed much smaller crimes that would never be worthy of the death penalty in the first place.
 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 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 "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: I feel as though you're implying that the death penalty is an effective crime deterrent.
 Sent2: It's cheap, I'd say as effective as preventing crime as the death penalty (would you want to spend the rest of your life doing labor in Alaska?
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: The death penalty doesn't reverse the death of the victim.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I am "for" capital punishment... but if a criminal shows a desire for death over a life sentence, I prefer to be sadistic.
 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: Similar
Sent1: They shouldn't want to send an innocent person to prison for life either so it should have been pretty clear they were guilty already.
 Sent2: 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: Do you expect 12 executions per year to deter a murder rate of the above mentioned amount?
 Sent2: Point out how many executions are taking place per year and compared to that the murder rate and tell me what you are seeing.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Last time I checked, killing doesn't bring persons back to life, so the only reason for the death penalty seems to be revenge.
 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: There are a lot of people who argue against the death penalty on principle nonetheless the financial.
 Sent2: Many people argue that the death penalty is not a detterence.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Death penalty is lawful (in some states) because a majority of the people has agreed to give the justice system the power to kill with our permission.
 Sent2: God gave to government the legitimate authority to use capital punishment to restrain murder and to punish murderers.
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 I were charged to do something that forced me to spend the rest of my life in jail, I would rather die right now - I think they're doing the criminal a favor by putting him down.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: So your argument is that if the death penalty was cheaper than life in prison it would have the advantage of being cheaper than life in prison.
 Sent2: But it costs more, kills more innocents, and has no more advantages to life in prison.
Output: Similar
Sent1: By killing a person who murdered someone, you are just doing the same thing you are punishing him/her for.
 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 capital punishment works (deterrent), why do we have such a high murder rate per capita?
 Sent2: If we focused on the death penalty in the trial, we wouldn't have those costs.
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: The first twenty states with higher murder rates all have the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: it has been proven time and again prisons don't rehabilitate, keeping someone in prision for their entire life in prision is less human than the death penalty.
 Sent2: Does the death penalty deter evil more than life in prison?
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: 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: Similar
Sent1: The government doesn't have the right to take away someone's life, even in the case of murder.
 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: 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: So, no, it doesn't prevent criminals from continuing their crimes -- they wouldn't continue anyway.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: There are many reasons the death penalty should be abolished.
 Sent2: There is no reason to give that person a death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I think the death penalty should only be used when there is undeniable proof against the suspect.
 Sent2: To summarize, I think the death penalty should be used, but only in extreme cases.
Output: Similar
Sent1: in fact the ones against the death penalty ARE FOR ABORTION!
 Sent2: One does not have to witness an execution to be aware one took place.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is not deterrance for the person executed.
 Sent2: The death penalty should not be catagorized as a deterrent.
Output: Similar
Sent1: People use the argument that we should not execute people based on the possibility that they may be innocent, but they could care less if we lock someone up for life who may be innocent.
 Sent2: People have, and will, be executed even though they are innocent of the crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I believe that if person takes the life of another, he should lose his life.
 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: You might say the criminal deserved it, but murder is murder, whether they deserved it or not.
 Sent2: They support it because killing murderers is the right thing to do.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: There is an even smaller chance of an innocent person being sent to prison for the rest of their life, let alone to be convicted of a crime and sent to death.
 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: Some innocent people are still sentenced to death, and that's where I see a problem.
 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: The death penalty doesn't need to serve as a deterrent to crime.
 Sent2: Hypothetically, fear of the death penalty could help prevent future crimes.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: We shouldn't just kill someone if they commit a crime.
 Sent2: 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.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty is the best possible deterrent for crime.
 Sent2: The thing is, without the death penalty there is absolutely no deterrent from committing heinous crimes.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The fact remains that life in prison is cheaper than sentencing one to the death penalty.
 Sent2: Without the trials and appeals, death penalty cases would be much cheaper than confining inmates for the rest of their lives.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The death penalty has been used as a scapegoat for many people who are against executions.
 Sent2: The person who said that the death penalty should be used for people who are convicted of multiple-burglaries sounds like a complete knucklehead.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: For sheer purposes of punishing a criminal, I don't support the death penalty.
 Sent2: I do not support the death penalty - but it's not because I feel bad for criminals.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Because justice operates to protect society by deterring future crime, one would have to show that the death penalty prevents more crime than life in prison, thus fulfilling the function of justice better than that of life in prison.
 Sent2: The death penalty doesn't need to serve as a deterrent to crime.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The way I see it people who murder shouldn't be sentenced to death or spend life in the jails we have here there to nice.
 Sent2: Capital punishment frees up jail cells: Considering how few people we execute and how many new people enter the prison system each year, I do not see this as being a very good argument.
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: 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: 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: So what does he have to do with a debate like this about murderers and the death penalty?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Yes, death penalty is not a qualified punishment for a crime.
 Sent2: And the purpose of the death penalty is not to punish, but to deter further crime.
Output: Similar
Sent1: A thorough review finds that death penalty opponents have lied, extensively, regarding the numbers of innocents sentenced to death, that such risk is extraordinarily low and that the cessation of executions will put many more innocents at risk.
 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: Did you study when these people were exonerated and in what year were they placed on the death penalty?
 Sent2: The studies are very clear that people are routinely convicted of crimes that they never committed, period.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I am advocating life in prison without the option of parole.
 Sent2: I guess the question begs to be asked to my friends on the left is If life in prisonment is so much worse then the death penalty why do you think most prisoners on death row would choose that option?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: With trials and appeals, one execution can end up costing more than a life sentence by the time the execution is actually carried out.
 Sent2: Actually, the idea that the death penalty costs more than lifetime imprisonment has been disproved many times.
Output: Similar
Sent1: The death penalty is sometimes claimed to save lives through deterrence.
 Sent2: But the statistics don't support the idea that the death penalty is any more effective as a detterent than is a life sentence.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I do feel that those who murder in cold blood would be more than deserving of the death penalty.
 Sent2: Because we are all potential victims of violent crime, and I believe that there are violent crimes deserving of the death penalty.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Did you study when these people were exonerated and in what year were they placed on the death penalty?
 Sent2: An argument for putting people to death is so that they can never escape and kill again.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I believe that societies should punish criminals to the degree that they have to based on sound rational reasons.
 Sent2: The reason why I'm for death penalty is because some people can be so dangerous fir the society, like serial murderer or maniac, so that they must be punished by this method.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Some prisons are actually prisons instead of criminal resorts, and those are the best to put scum like them in.
 Sent2: If someone is wrongly convicted of a crime and put in jail, they can be released if they're found to be innocent.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: This argument has been made for the death penalty also.
 Sent2: The debate question asks "Should the death penalty be legalized?"
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If capital punishment works (deterrent), why do we have such a high murder rate per capita?
 Sent2: 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.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: I do believe in the death Penalty, eye for and eye.
 Sent2: Death penalty is similar to "an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth"which is too inhuman.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Furthermore, any assertion that the death penalty is not a deterrent is false.
 Sent2: Your description, that the death penalty is a deterrent, is incorrect.
Output: Similar
Sent1: You can't undo the death penalty if it turns out evidence was fabricated or what have you.
 Sent2: The death penalty again has not only shown but proved to deter murder so therefore i wpuld suggest you reconsider your closing arguments.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: There cannot be a "no" answer since the death penalty is already legal.
 Sent2: Not sure how the death penalty is the more effective solution.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: 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.
 Sent2: politicaly correct death penalty we impose here in America may not deter crime as well as we think it should.
Output: Not similar