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Capital Punishment: Injustice of Society
Looking out for the state of the public's satisfaction in the scheme of
capital sentencing does not constitute serving justice. Today's system of
capital punishment is frought with inequalities and injustices. The commonly
offered arguments for the death penalty ....
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.... thousand people on
death row, and most people would not feel any safer tomorrow.”(Frame 51) In
addition, with the growing humanitarianism of modern society, the number of
inmates actually put to death is substantially lower than 50 years ago. This
decline creates a situation in which the death penalty ceases to be a deterrent
when the populace begins to think that one can get away with a crime and go
unpunished. Also, the less that the death sentence is used, the more it becomes
unusual, thus coming in conflict with the eighth amendment. This is essentially
a paradox, in which the ....
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