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Capital Punishment: The Only Defense
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In an average year about 20,000 homicides occur in the United States. Fewer than 300 convicted murderers are sentenced to death. But because no more than thirty murderers have been executed in any recent year, most convicts sentenced to death are likely to die of old age. Nonetheless, the death ....
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....e replaced by equality. Justice requires that as many of the guilty as possible be punished, regardless of whether others have slipped through and avoided punishment. To let these others escape the deserved punishment does not do justice to them, or to society.
Despite precautions, nearly all-human activities involve the lives of some innocent bystanders. We do not give up these activities because the advantages, moral or material outweigh the unintended losses. For those who think that the.... |
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