The Death Penalty Is Needed
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More than 13,000 people have been legally executed since colonial
times, most of them in the early 20th Century. By the 1930s, as many as 150
people were executed each year. However, public outrage and legal
challenges caused the practice to come to a halt. By 1967, capital
punishment had virtuall ....
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.... that the death penalty deters crime. States that have
death penalty laws do not have lower crime rates or murder rates than
states without such laws. And states that have abolished capital punishment,
or instituted it, show no significant changes in either crime or murder
rates.
Don't murderers deserve to die? Certainly, in general, the
punishment should fit the crime. But in civilized society, we reject the
"eye for an eye" principle of literally doing to criminals what they do t ....
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