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| Voices from people who support Capital punishment: - The death penaly is the only punishment for violent criminals and murderers is justice will be administered - Through the dearth penalty the respect for man's inviolable value is kept - The death penalty can fully confirms man's natural sense of justice - Only the death penalty can fully confirms man's natural sense of justice - The death penalty expresses society's compassion towards the affected victims of crime - The death penaly gives peace of mind to the victims and their relatives and puts an end to the crime. - The death penalty means the greatest mark form the State that it defends the ordinary citizen's right to live - The death penalty prevent with 100% efficiency the peretrator from committing more crimes. - The death penalty deters some people from committing heinous crimes and thereby human lives are saved. - The death penaly creates a somewhat safe society. |
| Voices form people who are against Capital Punishment: - With the death penalty, there is the unavoidable fact that some innocent will be executed. - The capital punishment does not deter and is therefore inefficient - The death penaly does not dead to a decreasing number of heinous violent crimes -The capital Punishment is a crime against human rights- The right to live - All human beings have an inviolable value and there the capital punishment is unacceptable - The capital punishment is inhumn and barbaric and can never be accepted in a civilized society. - The death penalty is inhumane since it is the some thin as torture - It is wrong for the state to kill in order to show that it is wrong to kill because that state then commits the some crime. - If the death penalty is fair for murder we do also, e.g. have to assult the assailant - The capital punishment is murder in the name of law! |
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