niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
The first part of that definition is for the most part inconsequential to this argument.
Output: Invalid
Im not gonna post anything yet though, I need to revaluate the issues first and then I'll post something which will later be slaughterd by Dou Maxwell.
Output: Invalid
I seem to be missing the time when "Jesus Christ told us point blank that capitol punishment was downright evil."
Output: Valid
The criminal is only a couple steps behind the law.
Output: Invalid
If you support the right to bear arms, ultimately you believe that a person should be allowed to kill somebody in self defense.
Output: Invalid
wow you fucking say i thing the ala-bye is the most important key to a murder investigation earlier and now i am saying that forensic evidence the the fucking key!!!!
Output: Invalid
If we execute death penalty, we will not be better than murderers.
Output: Valid
82% of abortions were carried out by the National Health Service.
Output: Invalid
Lust for revenge harms the person seeking revenge, the person whom the revenge is enacted upon, and the rest of society.
Output: Valid
And the argument of deterrence doesn't oblige either because how many people actually believe that people are NOT killing others because their afraid of getting the death penalty.
Output: Valid
Oh there are about a hundred things I can think of that make the death penalty look like a day in the park.
Output: Valid
So I argue that 3000 years of use does provide evidence that capital punishment works.
Output: Valid
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.
Output: Valid
Arguments that support the death penalty are the only ones that can reference the Constitution.
Output: Valid
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.
Output: Valid
Contrary to popular belief, the death penalty IS NOT an effective form of crime control.
Output: Valid
The strength of these findings has caused some legal scholars, originally opposed to the death penalty on moral grounds, to rethink their case.
Output: Valid
The death penalty is about specific crimes, not any crimes.
Output: Valid
The death penalty was included in that "law."
Output: Valid
If I'm not mistaken, we were talking about "murdering children".
Output: Invalid
The death penalty is legal murder justified by government morality and laws simply masqueraded as justice.
Output: Valid
the death penalty may be useful for removing members of society who show evidence of severely damaging it in the future.
Output: Valid
Indeed, the states with the death penalty on average have a higher per capita murder rate than those without - suggesting that other factors (economy, etc.) play a much larger role.
Output: Valid
Wrong again, there have been many, many, many more cases that that:
Output: Invalid
My major complaint against the death penalty is that it is quite permanent.
Output: Valid
If you'd knew you'd get tortured by the Nazis merely because they didn't like you...well you'd flee the country.
Output: Invalid
A 15 or 16 year old can willingly take a life
Output: Invalid
In fact, I'd throw the switch on some "deserving soul".
Output: Valid
So far, I am hearing "an eye for an eye" which is just that vengeance centered sense of justice that I am arguing against.
Output: Valid
This is about pro-life views and their compatibility with pro-death penalty views.
Output: Valid
If you do, you are burdened with making the excuses for it.
Output: Invalid
There is more the the abortion issue than the watersacks.
Output: Invalid
I'd take each situation and evaluate it on its own merits.
Output: Invalid
All you have done is state a proclamation that all crimes must be punished, without giving any of your reasons behind that.
Output: Valid
And the evidence of that is that they grow from a fertilized egg into sentient beings which are true reflections of their biological parents.
Output: Invalid
In fact, this point was made in the dissent of a Supreme Court opinion dealing with executing juvenile offenders.
Output: Valid
after all, we are supposed to be Christ-like, NOT paul-like or moses-like.
Output: Invalid
Firstly there has been no proof that an Innocent man has ever been placed on death row.
Output: Valid
A perfect judiciary system would not sentence innocent people, and would alleviate all problems with the death penalty.
Output: Valid
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.
Output: Valid
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: Valid
unfortunately the will of the people changes drastically over time, so the laws that are in place must be able to stand that test of time, and putting someone to death is punishment that should have stopped long ago.
Output: Valid
If JC were here today, he would be branded a flaming liberal.
Output: Invalid
Granted, someone, who bestows great harm onto a family for egregious acts, doesn't give the government the right to kill that person.
Output: Valid
Even if you choose to cling to these Old Testament laws at least admit that Jesus Christ, the man who defines and embodies what it is to be a Christian HATED the death penalty.
Output: Valid
Just to point out, the issue of the wrong person getting killed is highly unlikely today.
Output: Valid
Overtaxing society due to myths about the death penalty is, in any case, certainly unjust.
Output: Valid
Others who wish to remain and debate the death penalty here are of course welcome to do so.
Output: Valid
Why should he get off so easy as to have what he did die with him in the short 10-15 years it would take to submit to the death penalty.
Output: Valid
They get a fair appeals process, and in most cases (unless you are in Texas or Florida) stand little chance of being executed any time soon anyway.
Output: Valid
The terms of his release from death row were in my mind so wrong, and without getting into too much detail I feel that the system did not work in this case.
Output: Valid
It is something people are not reminded enough of to have it be a major concern in their decision making, it is often seen as a distant thing.
Output: Invalid
To me, the system's job is one thing: To prevent a similar crime from happening again, not to fulfill a concept that we have invented.
Output: Valid
>>>If we are sure they raped & killed those innocent children then we should let them die.
Output: Valid
However, there have been cases where people who were sentenced to life in prison without parole got out anyway through a fluke, or, most famously, a furlough program.
Output: Valid
Treason during war I have less of a problem with, since technically they are on the otherside.
Output: Invalid
It should be done, but only if you are 99.9% sure that the person actually did it.
Output: Valid
They would rather be noncommittal than do what is right.
Output: Invalid
But the government is empowered by God to do so.
Output: Invalid
Other countries not having it doesn't say anything about the morality of the death penalty.
Output: Valid
in my point of view we shound have a death penalty.
Output: Valid
Therefore, nobody is left blinded; they simply would have inferior depth perception.
Output: Invalid
I spent a weekend in the county jail once (didn't pay a traffic ticket when I was 17.....got pulled over and arrested when I was 23 and didn't have money for bail).
Output: Invalid
My conscience says that it the death penalty is immoral.
Output: Valid
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
Output: Valid
The reports have horrified death penalty opponents and several scientists, who vigorously question the data and its implications.
Output: Valid
Let's pretend that we are arguing whether hoses should be used to squirt random kids that we dint know.
Output: Invalid
When herds of animals overpopulate, the herd suffers even more.
Output: Invalid
And worse, if the dog isn't yours, and you just kick it because that's how you get off, than you are the neurologically imbalanced psychopath.
Output: Invalid
I may disagree with your ideas, I may and do call them foolish, damaging to the common weal, and ill advised, but I will defend your right to spread your error.
Output: Invalid
I would think that it would be an obvious point that we structure societies and civilizations in particular ways because there are REASONS to structure them that way.
Output: Invalid
For the time being, I've moved the Old Testament Law debate to a newly created thread, since this has become a thread about the Old Testament Laws in general, and not the death penalty in particular:
Output: Invalid
Death penalty cases involve a lot of appeals and them lawyers are really expensive.
Output: Valid
We dont have any problem killing innocent unborn babys, why not a serial killer.
Output: Valid
What you are actually criticizing is the success of a free appeals system and saying that it would have been better to kill an innocent man because that would have been cheaper and made a better point.
Output: Valid
However, I think that the government needs to provide undeinable proof of their guilt in order to be able to sentence someone to death.
Output: Valid
The same number of innocent people will be convicted regardless of the penalty or the number of appeals to be offered.
Output: Valid
I have a friend who would not balk at 99%.
Output: Invalid
If a person wasn't convicted then they surely wouldn't be murdered by the state.
Output: Valid
Others have said that the death penalty is biblically wrong.
Output: Valid
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: Valid
The content of the argument isn't what I was arguing; it was the grammatical use of the word deterrent as it applies to a dirt napper's ability to commit a future crime.
Output: Valid
There must be forensic evidence...fingerprints, DNA, hairs, blood, something physical, IMHO.
Output: Valid
Some crimes are so terrible, life in prison just isn't enough.
Output: Valid
A removal from death row by either state courts or the U.S. Supreme Court is associated with an increase of one additional murder.
Output: Valid
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: Valid
back in the day they did it like we should do it now...eye for an eye tooth for tooth.
Output: Valid
It costs far more to execute a person than to keep him or her in prison for life.
Output: Valid
if someone commits any crime, then they are a criminal by definition and should die.
Output: Valid
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: Valid
Well, you already admitted you can't with your "holding their guns in shaking hand, just waiting to shoot whoever comes through the door" statement.
Output: Invalid
There is no way that I believe it is okay to execute innocent people because of a flawed system.
Output: Valid
Ask the family members of who he killed if he deserves death.
Output: Valid
If you believe that, then you should therefore think Scott Peterson shouldn't be executed as there was no solid evidence he commited the crime.
Output: Valid
Duo, the same could be said about some of your comments...
Output: Invalid
Well one thing for sure the muderer or rapist who is executed will never commit those crimes again........He is permanently deterred........
Output: Valid
Still, in some cases death penalty would be the right thing to do (no point keeping mentally insane murderers just locked up for their whole life, although there could be some ways to use them).
Output: Valid
What I saw in your previous post was some personal justification of the random attacks from a terrorist group on a country that still uses the death penalty.
Output: Valid
What group of fallible human beings do you see fit to make the ultimate judgment on the life of another fallible human being?emoticonXConfused
Output: Valid
The death penalty should not be catagorized as a deterrent.
Output: Valid
You see even though death row can take multiple years, technology doesn't catch up with the crime sometimes for well over 15 years.
Output: Valid
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: Valid
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.
Output: Valid
You see, the people who cite what they would actually DO with guns cite all the wrong reasons, like protecting themselves from the state and similar.
Output: Invalid
I highly doubt the backing of why you personally would want the death penalty invoked is because you're worried at home that a mass murderer is going to escape and kill you or someone you love... seriously?
Output: Valid
some of the innocent people that have been executed in the
Output: Valid
In my opinion the death penalty is the very wrong way to work against criminal activity like murdering!
Output: Valid
Killing the criminal would just make others angry, since there are other ways to take criminals out of the streets, like life sentences.
Output: Valid
(If Billy Bob spends th next 25 years in prison, then I don't have to wonder if Billy Bob is going to be stealing my car for the next 25 years)
Output: Valid
The adultress did not kill anyone, she committed adultry."
Output: Invalid
Japan not only has and uses the death penalty, they do it the old fashioned way; by hanging the guilty with a noose and trap door.
Output: Valid
If you think you are all high and mighty, give me the history of the use of deterrence since the dawn of man and the primary fuction it served.
Output: Valid
Again... there is nearly never a fail-safe, sending an innocent man to death isn't something you can take back.
Output: Valid
I have a lot of sympathy for ex-convicts, but I still favor the death penalty.
Output: Valid
I am advocating life in prison without the option of parole.
Output: Valid
There have been 1000 executions since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
Output: Valid
The few cases that convict innocent people are becoming even fewer.
Output: Valid
OJ should be facing the same fate his wife and her boyfriend met.
Output: Valid
In effect then, what matters in terms of modern day morality and law is that we should not be enacting the death penalty on others.
Output: Valid
The first thing the immediate family knows of the criminal's death is when the body arrives at their front door for burial.
Output: Valid
i am not saying that by having one is the only determinate of clearing a suspect, ex a person has the right not to incriminate themselves, i.e. they were robbing a bank.
Output: Invalid
Do not say,"for the sake of justice" alone, because that justice must have a reason for being.
Output: Invalid
They gave us the right to end their lives when they assumed the right to deny a victim who's life was stolen from them.
Output: Valid
Especially given that you have accepted that some innocent people are executed.
Output: Valid
I do not think that a government should be unable to kill someone, simply that they almost always should not.
Output: Valid
there he completed the mission of eliminating sin once and for all, and being innocent was given (as a gift to himself, you could say) eternal life
Output: Invalid
Now I don't suggest we do what Muslim Nations do, but the prison system is WAY too relaxed.
Output: Valid
We wouldn't incur those legal fees , or the price of paying the bill for the person that has to do the killing.
Output: Valid
The jury sees partially false evidence which has been biased by a lawyer and the emotions of the family members, and then convicts an innocent person and sentence him to death.
Output: Valid
No possible way to obtain a statistic like that and have any accuracy at all.
Output: Invalid
Only if accuracy and truth are important in public policy decisions and media reports.
Output: Invalid
Therefore, the Death Penalty stands as a humane form of justice.
Output: Valid
If it is not, then we should not be putting people on trial for murder.
Output: Valid
Sorry for the length of the post, but I hope it helps you understand why I oppose capital punishment.
Output: Valid
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: Valid
Without corroboration, a conviction is not "beyond reasonable doubt" Luckily for the legal process, your cretinous opinion is irrelevant.
Output: Valid
An argument for putting people to death is so that they can never escape and kill again.
Output: Valid
It would never have began had the murderer not committed his deed.
Output: Valid
These studies were carried out on actual reality executions highly publicized in the media and how it affected the criminal populations.
Output: Valid
They were found in the internet search because they are wdiely known studies published.
Output: Invalid
Although it is costly keeping someone in prison for their lifetime, this isn̢���t a valid reason to excuse errors in the system.
Output: Valid
The cost of execution is dependant on the state the prisoner is to be tried and executed in.
Output: Valid
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.
Output: Valid
I actually endorse the death penalty for such criminals but if they must get life without parole then let it be hard and not just a new address to live comfortably within at the expense of the State.
Output: Valid
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Output: Invalid
The notion that innocent people may be sentenced to death is not a death penalty problem, it is a judicial system problem.
Output: Valid
If we can not prevent the innocent from unjust punishment, we should not have the death penalty.
Output: Valid
from a biblical perspective the death penalty is no longer necessary.
Output: Valid
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: Valid
They are nothing more than projected guesses made to put the death penalty in a positive light.
Output: Valid
Any moral judgment aside, does it make sense to spend over $2 million each to execute versus $750,000 to imprison for life?
Output: Valid
There are many people on this earth who don't deserve to live.
Output: Valid
Wonder why we can't get a candidate in office who has strong views for the death penalty and almost immediate execution after conviction.
Output: Valid
As of yet, we have not seen fact one that even one innocent person has been put to death.
Output: Valid
The death penalty is also based on rationality of murder.
Output: Valid
What I meant was that the chance of being wrongly convicted for a capital case is far less than the change of being struck by lightning.
Output: Valid
If you are asking me how I an Pro-2A, but Anti-DP, then its because the right to bear arms serves a purpose.
Output: Invalid
If the death penalty is not what is right, then the death penalty is certainly not about justice; it is pseudo revenge.
Output: Valid
Yet the stupid State of Georgia has already used up its entire yearly budget for indigent defense of this worthless man...over a million and a half I think, so far...and he still hasn't been tried.
Output: Valid
The death penalty is the only just punishment for their actions.
Output: Valid
We draw the line based upon age all the time for all sorts of things.
Output: Invalid
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.
Output: Valid
The temperatures are too cold that, if humans were to survive, they would most likely do so without a limb or two.
Output: Invalid
You can't get much worse than a death penalty.
Output: Valid
In addition, Rep. Edwards selected an anti death penalty group, The Death Penalty Information Center (the DPIC), to conduct the study, thereby negating objective confidence in the results.
Output: Valid
If they are uncomfortable admitting that vengeance is the underlying reason, then perhaps they should re-think their stance on the death penalty.
Output: Valid
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?
Output: Valid
On a national basis, these figures translate to an extra cost of over $1 billion spent since 1976 on the death penalty.
Output: Valid
Peterson could face the death penalty or life without parole.
Output: Valid
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: Valid
They're gonna find a way to hurt their intended target, be it just one person in a mugging, or 100 in a mass murder.
Output: Invalid
The DPIC alleges that 12 of their 102 "innocents" were proven actually innocent because their DNA screenings were negative.
Output: Valid
If it is as serious as torture or murder... Yes we should.
Output: Valid
Except for the fact that such isn't realistic or possible.
Output: Invalid
You make it sound as though if someone is innocent, of anything, they should be killed.
Output: Valid
The death penalty assures that an incorragable criminal never has the opportunity to kill anybody else.
Output: Valid
So you think that someone who has claimed the life of someone else deserves the comfortable environment of a prison?
Output: Valid
The death penalty is sometimes claimed to save lives through deterrence.
Output: Valid
That comment implies that you see the death penalty as a deterrent.
Output: Valid
Even if being in prision was worse, which it isn't... The point is not revenge.
Output: Valid
Thats because you are a citizen of the worlds most powerful country:)
Output: Invalid
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: Valid
I'm pro-death penalty because there is no atonement for murder.
Output: Valid
As a general rule, the death penalty cost studies are worthless.
Output: Valid
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: Valid
Secondly, your edited statistics are no more accurate than your earlier stats in showing that the murder rate has risen.
Output: Valid
There is an important point that hasn't been made here yet.
Output: Invalid
I suppose that, for most people, having to serve a life sentence without parole would already ruin their life enough that any who would be detered by fear of punishment are already detered.
Output: Valid
First, we must choose to use executions because they may save innocent life.
Output: Valid
It's simply getting harder and harder to commit a crime, especially without getting caught.
Output: Invalid
And that killer has help, he has the people that support the death penalty and will give him more appeals, and if found guilty he'll get an easy way out with death, he won't have to suffer.
Output: Valid
Besides, if someone raped and killed my daughter, I'd prefer they suffered the rest of their life in jail being man-raped by a bunch of rednecks and neo-nazi's than just be given the easy way out.
Output: Valid
The penalty is seen as vengence, why do they let families of the victims watch?
Output: Valid
As a whole has been decided that murder, that killing someone without a justifiable reason, is wrong.
Output: Valid
If someone is wrongly convicted of a crime and put in jail, they can be released if they're found to be innocent.
Output: Valid
If anything, this kind of "argument" is an argument for abolishing the death penalty, since it isn't used uniformly across the entire country.
Output: Valid
This is what i would refer to as being an utilitarian benefit of executing those guilty of murder to prevent violence in the prison world and society.
Output: Valid
Are you intimating (good word by the way :) ) that blacks receive the death penalty more often than white people?
Output: Valid
its simply that the option exists to get around the death penalty.
Output: Valid
Too often it has been found postmortem with DNA evidence, that the one executed was innocent.
Output: Valid
If a dog bit a human, they would be put down, so why no do the same to a human?
Output: Valid
I'd be willing to give those already convicted and waiting on death row one more chance to show reasonable doubt of their guilt.
Output: Valid
Almost like how a liberal will bemoan a corporations concearn for it's share holders over thinking of the damage it does to the environment and shoddly product it pushes onto consumers.
Output: Invalid
Like I said no criminal justice system is perfect......
Output: Valid
We'll later see quotes and links to studies that "prove" CP (capital punishment) is not a deterrent.
Output: Valid
I just think that if all non-volent offenders were out of jail then we'd have A LOT more room.
Output: Valid
The death sentence has been used since the beginning of the United States, and rarely, if ever, has there been an occurrence in which someone avenges the death of a murderer or rapist.
Output: Valid
Because we are all potential victims of violent crime, and I believe that there are violent crimes deserving of the death penalty.
Output: Valid
Why should people who have been convicted be aable to appeal over and over untill he can no longer afford to appeal.
Output: Valid
What gets little notice, however, is a series of academic studies over the last half-dozen years that claim to settle a once hotly debated argument ��� whether the death penalty acts as a deterrent to murder.
Output: Valid
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: Valid
In fact mudkipz, many people would prefer the death penalty of life in jail.
Output: Valid
What if there were people killing other people, escaping from jail, doing it again etc.
Output: Valid
They may have forfeit their rights to dwell as members of society, but they are still human beings, and you more than anyone else should be fighting for their souls rather than wishing dispair and hopelessness upon them.
Output: Valid
Should the abuser be put to death, that would be to good for him.
Output: Valid
An eye for an eye won't make the whole world blind if the person never took the eye in the first place.
Output: Valid
well what do you suggest we do to someone who robs a bank?
Output: Invalid
ICBM, but I think the additional cost is concentrated in the first trial.
Output: Valid
I used to be for the death penalty, however two things made me question my position.
Output: Valid
You may safely bet that lawyers will not favor abolishing the death penalty because it will severely diminish the cash flow in their direction.
Output: Valid
The question of whether death sentence should be allowed to continue or not, is therefore dependent upon the society and in general a society that has evolved as a "civilized" society would not need such punishments.
Output: Valid
I have never said that something should be abandoned for the sole reason that it is traditional and not modern - that would be a preposterous claim.
Output: Invalid
Yet, under all debated scenarios, halting executions will put more innocents at risk.
Output: Valid
Well, some other people feel insecure about life-sentences in prison!
Output: Valid
I could care less if it costs more, cost is not the issue.
Output: Valid
By the way, I believe I�۪m correct in saying there has not been an innocent person put to death since 1900.
Output: Valid
What I am saying is that the second choice must meet a MUCH higher burden of proof than the first.
Output: Invalid
I'm all for taking away the massive benefits, but I can't extend punishment to someone who is merely taking advantage of the liberal give-away programs.
Output: Invalid
Partially correct, however no one pays for an abortion, except maybe the patient's money to the doctor.
Output: Invalid
in fact the ones against the death penalty ARE FOR ABORTION!
Output: Valid
And the justification of holding sentient beings who MURDER others with malice responsible for their actions by legally executing them for choosing to kill other human beings.
Output: Valid
The fact that you believe a person should be executed for kicking a dog demonstrates that you are one f those unhinged vigliante sorts; your sort should be chlorinated from the gene pool before you become a serial killer.
Output: Valid
The death penalty is simply a legally imposed punishment given to felons who commited crimes for which the death penalty is applicable.
Output: Valid
It is a technique used when one has no argument.
Output: Invalid
If we tollerate murder it will only fuel the problem.
Output: Valid
Law should never be ruled from the victims point of view - if this was the point then we wouldn't bother with courts and just stick with vigilante justice.
Output: Valid
How can I be saying that everyone is innocent when my math says that only 30% or so of the executed were likely innocent?
Output: Valid
Same with the others, if they are in solitary and they succeed in killing someone else , death penalty then fine.
Output: Valid
A child is more likely to drown in a backyard pool than be killed playing with a firearm but we do not consider banning backyard pools because they are somewhat less easy to demagogue.
Output: Invalid
Hello, been away for a good while, and here I am again.
Output: Invalid
The judge may or may not feel the death penaly is warranted.
Output: Valid
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: Valid
And the purpose of the death penalty is not to punish, but to deter further crime.
Output: Valid
In any case, I think we should reserve our sympathy for the surviving families of terrible crimes.
Output: Valid
Infact, it wasn't until fall of '04 that I found that O.J. Simpson actually did kill his wife.
Output: Invalid
But it costs more, kills more innocents, and has no more advantages to life in prison.
Output: Valid
Because death and war has been around longer than man has existed.
Output: Valid
Perhaps when the anti-crowd overwhelmingly calls for total reform, I might lend a little credence to their argument.
Output: Invalid
There are many abstracts (short summaries of the entire paper) printed in this link.
Output: Invalid
if it's murder then okay... the criminal deserves the death penalty.
Output: Valid
Executing people is costing this country money, lives, and dignity.
Output: Valid
The police and prosecuters must dot all the I's and cross all the T's in order to bring a fair and accurate prosecution against someone.
Output: Valid
The reason to be for the death penalty is because it is just; the same foundation of support for all sanctions.
Output: Valid
Places like IL, that have shown that they aren't, shouldn't be in the execution business, but if 10 people watch John Doe kill someone in cold blood, he's got to go, IMO.
Output: Valid
The crux of your argument is that since "you" do not believe, it can not be.
Output: Invalid
We cannot force our belief in a right we enjoy onto people that only exist at the discretion of a government and not God.
Output: Invalid
"We know for a FACT that innocent people have been put to death already"- then give me their names.
Output: Valid
We can't have one without the other, in fact we can't have one without all of them.
Output: Invalid
LET`S ESTABLISH A CAMPAIGN TO SEARCH THE FREEDOM OF THE HERO WHO KILLED HIM
Output: Valid
I will agree that the death penalty is too arbitrarily applied.
Output: Valid
What I fail to understand is why citizens who are personally uninvolved with a capital crime scream for the death penalty.
Output: Valid
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: Valid
Yes, there is a difference between the truly "I had no connection to the murder" cases and "I did it but I got off because of legal error" cases.
Output: Valid
There are a lot of people who argue against the death penalty on principle nonetheless the financial.
Output: Valid
Besides, if you knew anything about this process, which is quite clear you know absolutely nothing, you would realize that 1 appeal is not enough.
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Everyone could benefit from it, even the criminals by gaining new skills and experience with the jobs they are doing, and they could use those later when they get out of prison, if they get out.
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I'm talking about the reality of an accepted punishment, and you are bringing up a fictional torture system which is illegal and would have a snowballs chance in hell of gaining acceptance in the US.
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If you try shortening the trials to cheapen costs though, the chance that the person will be innocent and executed only increases.
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Yes, but until we can fix the justice system, we should cut down on the amount of death penalties being given out.
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The abolishment of the death penalty is considered an advancement in most societies.
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the death penalty is also discriminatory in its application what i mean is that through out the world the death penalty is disproportionately used against disadvantaged people .
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stacy in england you do not need dna evidence to convict on these crimes.
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Well the death penalty is completely moral in all aspects.
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Hellno is right, capital punishment should be much more cost effective than the alternative- life in prison without parole.
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the point we need to bear in mind is that sin implied death.
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Second, if the situation were turned, you would probably say "Purposely indulging in an act that carries risk to your own body for your own convenience and then committing suicide" if we were talking about peds.
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Many people find some crimes heinous enough to warrent the death penalty.
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The only problem is that some human has to build and program it.
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The point is that people who care about you will suffer more if you die than if you are tortured or raped.
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1) Virginia: How the death penalty will save money over life without parole (LWOP).
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The death penalty by nature requires a PERFECT body to govern it, we will never obtain that, we'll never come close.
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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.
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I don't think everyone should be put to death.
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Look violence rates of ALL kinds are lower outside of the USA in countries with no death penalty, period.
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I say if someone gets life w/o parole, they should be put into a real jail, rather than the country clubs many criminals go to.
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If we should abolish the death penalty because of emotions, then for every life taken by those very murderers, we will be held accountable and responsible for.
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But people who act in the heat of a moment, who don̢���t predetermine to take lives or do harm, they are at least excused from the death penalty for not having put rational thought into the matter.
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For those who say "we need to make sure they don't kill again" no one in the history of maximum security prisons has ever escaped a maximum security prison, so it's not really an issue.
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but yes only in extreme cases, and only if we can prove the person is guilty without a doubt.
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I have evidence that says that innocent people are convicted of crimes.
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I KNOW IT COSTS A LOT TO KEEP AN INMATE IN PRISON.
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Like i said, it it takes more than opinion to make me believe something so prove it not by opinions but by sources that supports the point you are making in relation to the same studies.
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My main compairison was that the Russians never bombed anyone outside of testing with in their own borders.
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I am against the death penalty because we have an imperfect justice system in the U.S. Mistakes are inevitable and not worth any perceived benefit.
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The problem I tried to focus on is the enhanced ways of killing.
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Which would you prefer, to be locked in a cell until you die, or to be killed today?
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States without the death penalty generally have lower murder rates.
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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.
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I think the death penalty is one of the several punishment in the law system, we shouldn't consider it like something insane, and moreover it's normal in some countries nowadays.
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Only those with truly twisted morals and value systems would defend abortion while fighting against the execution of convicted murderers.
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Have you ever heard the expression where there is life there is hope?
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Besides I'm not saying we should apply the death penalty in all instances of murder for example.
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I say that they should be killed the same way that the person(s) that they killed were.
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Life without parole costs the justice system WAAAY less than death penalty cases do.
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yes it should only if the victim is serial killer it means one life for 15 lives i think t fair enough
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But you have to wonder, how can there be no shred of supporting evidence after thousands of years of use, if it IS a actual deterrent?
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People in prison have done wrong and if we want our prisoners to be an asset to the country we must teach them right from wrong so they can be productive and positive.
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And sure it is at a cost to the taxpayer, but whether or not we execute someone should not be dependent upon the relative financial cost.
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As long as there is life in the prisoner, there is a chance that evidence will be brought to bear that will lead to that person's ultimate exoneration and freedom/ Once they are executed, it's too late.
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I believe that if person takes the life of another, he should lose his life.
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If someone killed a relative of mine, I'd want to PERSONALLY throw the switch or put a bullet in their head.
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Death penalty would be less expensive if the appeal process were run more effectively.
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To summarize, I think the death penalty should be used, but only in extreme cases.
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If the death penalty is not administered equally, those who have been put to death have been treated UNFAIRLY.
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You are right when you say that historically, that's not been the case.
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Something quite different than when you're pushed infront of some detectives and actually questioned over your motives for murdering someone.
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Without the death penalty, the criminal would probably die in prison because it is very unlikely he would be released or escape.
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The fact remains that life in prison is cheaper than sentencing one to the death penalty.
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C: The main CON argument against capital punishment is that he should have second chance.
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The question with the death penalty is not kill or give no punishment.
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A significent amount of death row inmates have been exonerated on finding of incompetent/drunk/high lawyers, racial prejudice, hidden or recent evidence, and other such non-court violations.
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It is all opinions lacking the support of any statistics.
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But the way i look at it is that whatever one person does to another, especially if it causes death or extreme hospital bills, they deserve to have it done to them as well.
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No death by execution is not inherently disrespectful of life, there must be punishment and proportionality to every crime where it should be clear that the proportionate principle is a maximum, not mandatory.
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But I can't get past the fact that they'll be killed for killing someone else - it's hypocritical.
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That makes me think about the competitive examination you can do to get a job, which puts most people on a quite equal ground; but some propose a fistful of jobs for some thousands candidates.
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The death penalty is not an act of injustice or additional dysfunction, it is about protecting life from the act of unwarranted aggression.
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i suppose you think OJ is innocent as well then huh.....
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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
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Even if the death penalty does decrease crime the error rate in capital cases is too great to tolerate in a civilized society.
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Perhaps the most important factor in determining whether a defendant will receive the death penalty is the quality of the representation he or she is provided.
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Thus, homicide rates are more dependent on local economies, etc. than on any dissuading factor of a fear of punishment.
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They're more to help the guards than the prisoners.
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Even if the death penalty is beneficial to society is it alright to sacrifice the lives of a few innocent people for the public good?
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In every town, city, county, state, and country, it is understood that murder is wrong and immoral.
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After the average of 60 years for a life sentence, tax payers have spent $1,320,000 on ONE SINGLE PERSON.
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The lives saved by the death penalty, which I suspect is 0, unless the answer to the above question is "yes", is smaller than the innocents killed by the death penalty.
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Commissioner Jones was quoted comparing the costs to the trial�۪s results, ���That extra measure of justice or vengeance -- however you want to call it -- is not worth all the sacrifices you�۪ll have to make.�۝
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The law says it is illegal and the law could easily say killing fish for food is also illegal.
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You must believe that God said nothing without reason, that all Scripture is truth, and that, till heaven and earth pass, the entire law is either applicable to us today, or has been fulfilled (Matt.
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As it is today, when someone murderers another, the death penalty is considered, as it should be.
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Jesus taught us to LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS HE HAS LOVED US!!!!!!!!!!!
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if someone chopped off your best friends head right in front of you, would they be deserving of the death penalty?
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We simply don't have the resources necessary to continue indefinitely housing those guilty of the most heinous crimes recognized by our judicial system.
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I do not support the DP for a defendant not proven guilty beyond the shadow of a doubt.
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You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
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Therefore, there is no benefit for them in agreeing to our constitutionally protected rights.
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In all cases, the first punishment shouldn't be the death penalty.
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This argument has been made for the death penalty also.
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If you are personally familiar with the hatred that accompanies a murderer, then you must know a victim's family member.
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I'm fairly certain that no state has ever made persons who committed their crime at, say, 8-9 years old eligible for the death penalty.
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By the way, I am not against a woman's right to choose.
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Hopefully a war is helping our country, the death penalty costs our country money and doesn't help anything.
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If I could be satisfactorily convinced that a murderer had ZERO chance of committing another crime, I might be convinced to do away with the death penalty.
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The death penalty is usually given as a sentence in place of lifetime in a max security prison without parole.
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take into account the appeal process, which can last decades.
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Everything that is needed for an ordinary trial is the same for a Death Penalty case, only more so.
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As for DNA evidence, it's hardly a silver bullet.
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politicaly correct death penalty we impose here in America may not deter crime as well as we think it should.
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I'd think murders going down after any execution would be mostly coincidental as most are 'heat of the moment' without consideration for penalty.
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At the end of the day the killer is being punished for ending a life.
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But why do you have to get rid of them by killing them.
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Understandably, the second definition is a little more specific and redefines what the state is doing.
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If I had sex, I would refuse to pay anything.
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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........
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Sometimes it is necessary to give equal punishment for the crime; LOGICALLY.
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And if you are going to send me the link, please try and find the data, if available.
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I think the firing squad cases were in Utah, and requested by the inmates.
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In a case that has been overturned on appeal, the prosecution may drop the charges because of many reasons, the least likely being actual innocence (insert citation).
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Second, he killed someone during the commission of another crime.
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killing a person, no matter the reason, is still murder.
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Homsexuals atleast are better than to behave like an asshole on this site trying to gain some attention by talking about faggots all the time.
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However, assassinating someone because of a fanatic ideology is not justifiable.
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There is absolutely ZERO evidence that the death penalty deters crime.
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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.
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Texas, with many executions, followed the same trend as states without any executions.
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The death penalty is society voting as a whole that it is OK to stop applying moral values to those who have already stopped applying morals themselves - which is hypocritical, at the very least.
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I have heard people say "I could never kill anybody".
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And when "they" are executed, care will be taken to swab the skin where the needles are placed with alcohol.
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Roman law said she should be put to death, Jesus said no, that law is wrong.
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If I wanted to discuss abortion, then I would mosey on along to the abortion forum and post there.
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They will think that if the government does it, it's right for them to do it.
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Certainly, that would reduce the amount of theft, but does that make the punishment right and moral?
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