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r-pattz said:
No. - To begin, it's immoral. It's killing to montrer that killing is wrong. If the government is killing people, then what kind of example are they setting? - It's expensive. Actually, it costs plus to kill someone than it does to imprison them for their lives. The higher cost is due to longer and plus complex trials, plus in depth investigations, retrials, appeals, state attorneys, etc. - It can cause pain. Even giving the lethal injection a person can hurt them. They use a three drug cocktail, see. If the first drug, the one that knocks out the person, doesn't work ou is injected improperly, then they will be awake the entire time, but won't be able to cry out because drug number two paralyzes them. (If the first drug doesn't work, the person will be suffocating as well, because their body won't be able to take in air.) There was actually a case where a man lifted up his head to say "It's not working," after the first drug was injected, and before the seconde hit him. - The people administering the lethal injections are untrained. Certified doctors are not allowed to do the lethal injections (I forget why), ou they will have their license revoked. So the people doing this have little ou no medical training. They could administer the drugs wrong, give out the wrong doses, etc. - toi can't ever be completely certain that a person committed the crime. There have been over 140 exonerations since the 70's, people that were convicted but then let off. - It violates the Eighth Amendment, which is against cruel ou unusual punishment. Wouldn't toi agree that murder is cruel? And the pain that can be caused is even worse. - There ARE other alternatives. Life in prison without parole, for example. - It does NOT deter. Criminals are not thinking clearly about long term effects when they murder someone, especially in crimes of passion. Also, the crime rates do not drop in states that have the death penalty in place. - The system is biased. A person is four times plus likely to be executed for killing a white man than for killing a black. There is also bias against the poorer class, who can't afford good lawyers. It isn't a very fair form of "justice" at all.
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