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The Death Penalty 9
Title: The Death Penalty 9
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 995 | Pages: 4.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Death Penalty 9
Advocates of capital punishment believe that the death penalty is dominated by the fraudulent voice of the anti-death penalty movement-that culture and lies so dominate that movement that many of falsehoods are now accepted as fact.
Contrary to many beliefs, the imposition of the death penalty is extraordinarily rare. Since 1967, there has been one execution for every 1600 murders or .06%. According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report and Bureau of Justice Statistics, between 1967 and 1996, there …showed first 75 words of 995 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 995 total…comes out to a total cost of 1.88 million plus 1.5 million for trial and appeals. The cost of the death penalty is clearly lower.
Opponents equate the death penalty with the Nazi holocaust. They see no moral distinction between the slaughter of 12 million totally innocent men, women, and children and the execution of society’s worst human rights violators. Advocates and the Supreme Court see executions as the appropriate punishment for certain criminals committing specific crimes.
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