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Capital Punishment An Unjust Solution
Title: Capital Punishment An Unjust Solution
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1705 | Pages: 7.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Capital Punishment An Unjust Solution
The three most recognized reasons for capital punishment are crime deterrent, eye-for-an-eye justice, and removal of undesirables from society. In fact, capital punishment has not proven to deter capital crimes in any state. Furthermore, in a sane and moral society the means of capital punishment (i.e. how prisoners are put to death) is anything but just. Ultimately society should aspire to the identification and remedy of that which causes the crime, not extermination of …showed first 75 words of 1705 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1705 total…incapable of protecting society without opting to killing. Supporters must think that it would be a waste of time to try to rehabilitate the offenders. Of the paroled murderers, .31% were later convicted of homicide. There are actually a greater percentage of the non-capital crime offenders who are paroled and then go on to commit a homicide. Using this logic, crimes such as burglary, armed robbery, and fraud should be considered capital crimes, punishable with death.
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