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Capital punishment
* applies to all humans.
* barbaric remnant of an uncivilized society.
* better deterrent to murder than imprisonment.
* can be moral only when is necessary for public safety.
* contradiction in every sense of the word.
* controversial topic that is frequently in the news
  - way of dealing with violent criminals
* definite deterrent to crime.
* denies due process of law because it is irrevocable.
* deprives a person of the opportunity to repent.
* destroys the chance of convicted criminals to rehabilitate.
* deterrent to homicide.
* deters others from committing such offenses.
* discriminates against the poor.
* does stem back many years.
* falls especially on the underprivileged of our society.
* feeds the anger and the hurt of the victims.
* focuses on retribution, sometimes reflecting a spirit of vengeance.
* fundamental principle for equal justice under law
  - to a peaceful and happy society
* gives the government the legal right to commit first-degree murder.
* goes against almost every religion.
* has a biblical basis
  - proven deterrent effect on the murder rate
* ignores corporate and community guilt.
* is an expensive way to deal with the problem of violent crime.
* is an expression of humanity's most base desires for bloody vengeance
  - society's moral outrage at offensive conduct
  - ignoble, irrevocable act of revenge
  - intolerable denial of civil liberties
  - outpost of gender discrimination
  - applied unfairly
  - awarded in retaliation for another life that has been taken illegally
  - both a cruel and an unusual punishment
  - corporal punishment
  - cruel and unusual
  - death penalties
  - denied as cruel and inhuman punishment
  - fair to all ethnic groups and both genders, as well as to all social classes
  - favored by the vast majority of all the world's citizens
  - imposed unequally among the races
  - ineffective as a deterrent, costly, uncivilized and inhumane
  - inflicted disproportionately on the poor and minorities
  - justice first, and a deterrent as a by-product
  - little more than state sanctioned murder
  - marketed as the answer to deal with violent crime
* is meant to be a deterrent to crime, specifically murder
  - remove individuals from society
* is more expensive than life imprisonment
  - in prison
  - needed in order to keep our society from becoming one filled with criminals
  - now the law in more than two thirds of our States
* is one of the most popularly debated topics in the nation today
  - oldest forms of punishment
  - our societies recognition of the sanctity of human life
  - part of the circle of death
  - permitted under both U.S. and international law
  - popular in the United States
  - possible for certain drug-related crimes
  - punishment by death
  - simply the powerful killing the indefensible
  - society's version of self-defense
  - something that belongs in another century
  - still part of the penal code in Albania, Latvia, and the United States
  - supported by a majority of the citizens in a majority of the states
  - tantamount to a repudiation of the divine nature of man
  - the legal infliction of death on people convicted of a crime
* is the most calculating, premeditated form of murder there is
  - severe and harsh punishment that is available
  - politically correct term for revenge
  - right of the state
* is the ultimate deterrent
  - punishment, and also the ultimate thrill
* is to be implemented because of the sanctity of human life
  - the whole society what self-defense is to the individual
  - used in an arbitrary and discriminatory way
  - warranted due to the sanctity of life
* is, pardon the redundancy, a punishment for crime.
* legal application of the death sentence
  - penalty in Indonesia
* matter of law.
* method of retributive punishment as old as civilization itself
  - open to irremediable mistakes
* perpetuates the concepts of vengeance and retaliation.
* places the whole society in the position of life-taker.
* primitive idea, rooted in revenge.
* provides victims' families with an outlet for revenge.
* reasonable penalty for murderers.
* seeks to remedy violent crime or murder by taking the perpetrator's life.
* self-inflicted wound.
* sets examples of murders and wrongdoers.
* violates human dignity.