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punishing someone to life in prison is worse than ending their life right away

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it would be hypocritical to 🤬 someone who's killed

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keeping them in prison is cheaper than killing them

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Someone who is maybe innocent may put to death .

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Life in prison would be a worse punishment than just dying .

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The death penalty could work but if it is strict to the criminals but if not they are going to be doing more crimes if it is not a strict death penalty.

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Having the death penalty as an option isn't going to stop people from committing crimes.

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Some prisoners can be accused and you would be taking their life away

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It would be too much money that could be used for other better important things. Like school or our comm

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I don't believe a human has the right to take another persons life, of course unless it was self defense or can be justified. But not for a "punishment".

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we don't get to play God with their life's

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or the tax money can go to fixing these crusty streets and helping mentally ill people not commit these crimes in the first place

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Some Jury members are reluctant to convict if it means putting someone to death as they will have to live with their decisions for the rest of their lives. Clinical social worker Janvier Slick adds that for some jurors, the experience of having to decide whether another person should live or die “results in a variety of symptoms related to post-traumatic stress, and the problems may remain with them for a long time. Further, the trauma is not mitigated and may even be exacerbated when the defendant’s execution occurs.”

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One out of every ten who has been executed in the United States since 1977 is mentally ill, according to Amnesty International and the National Association on Mental Illness. Many mentally ill defendants are unable to participate in their trials in any meaningful way and appear unengaged, cold, and unfeeling before the jury. Some have been forcibly medicated in order to make them competent to be executed. Although the U.S. Supreme Court has decreed that people with “mental retardation” may not be executed, Oregon has not yet passed a law banning the execution of the mentally ill.

Instead killing them. Give them help. Sometimes, people with mental illness can't control on what are they doing. They just need help.

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their has been innocent people that were sentenced the death penalty and eventually they gather the evidence of their innocence 

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their has been innocent people that were sentenced the death penalty and eventually they gather the evidence of their innocence 

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we got kids to give educations to and you wanna use the money to 🤬 someone for killing somone

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Tax money can go to school instead of wasting it on people that are supposed to be worthless scums of society.

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We forget that the death of someone has effects on others. Killing someone for their crimes will cause trauma to the family and we will only show that we think killing is the only solution to the problem.

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Families of 🤬 victims undergo severe trauma and loss which no one should minimize. However, executions do not help these people heal nor do they end their pain; the extended process prior to executions prolongs the agony of the family. Families of 🤬 victims would benefit far more if the funds now being used for the costly process of executions were diverted to counseling and other assistance.

Do you think killing someone will help their family. What happens if you have the wrong person?

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Killing someone for killing someone teaches them nothing they get a free out by death. Prison is far worse than death.

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The death penalty is not really a punishment it sounds more like revenge.

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Killing won’t be a punishment

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Killing someone with the death penalty takes away the chance for them to suffer in prison and pay the consequences.

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There is always a chance that people we send to the death penalty are innocent. We make mistakes, we can assume that someone committed the crime, and we often mistake them and turn out putting an innocent person in jail. If we were to do that with the death penalty, we could end up killing an innocent person while the one who actually committed the crime is still out there.

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Killing them won't make them pay for their crimes

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Prison is a far worse punishment and a more efficient deterrent than a quick death.

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Tax payer money goes towards the lethal injection and it costs thousands of dollars to 🤬 just one person.

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- This is not a way for the criminal to pay for what they have done.
- The death penalty is inhumane.
- Let the person think about what they have done and hopefully they become a better person.

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Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in the United States in 1976, 138 innocent men and women have been released from death row, including some who came within minutes of execution. In Missouri, Texas and Virginia investigations have been opened to determine if those states executed innocent men. To execute an innocent person is morally reprehensible; this is a risk we cannot take.
It's not right for people to get executed for something that isn't right

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if you give someone the death penalty what do you really get out of killing them?

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if you give someone the death penalty what do you really get out of killing them?

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The United States has the largest quantity of prisoners (Larger than the entire chinese army!), and our countries debt continues to grow exponentially. It is right to allow those who have murdered

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The death penalty is expensive, but depending on what they're charged with, The death penalty maybe a better choice like if a killer were to be released then commit the same crime, or if they were sentence for life and were to go insane or not cooperate with the laws while in bars, and begin to start a prison raid and/or committing homicide to "fellow" inmates.

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It costs more to 🤬 them rather than leave them in our prisons.

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Sends the wrong message because you are killing people who 🤬 other people to show that killing is wrong.

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The people wont pay properly for what they did.

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Idk they wont suffer if they just die
they get the easy way out.
If someone kills someone and we 🤬 them for that, it is a little ironic.