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[LJP07]

Over 1,000 in America have been executed either by electrocution or Lethal Injection, Gas Chamber, Hanging or Firing Squad.

Here is a list of the crimes of each state that will pursue Death Penalty:

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/arti...id=144&scid=10

There is also a table on http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/state/ in which they state that you don't have to be involved in killing the person in order to not get the Death Penalty.

But is the Death Penalty justified? If it's justified in one case, then why not all?

Another site states that the Death Penalty reduces more murders, but isn't the act of killing the murderer the same for what he committed, what justifes that? The famous film called " The Life of David Gale ", which is about him supposed to be getting killed by Death Penalty, when in fact he didn't do anything at all, he was innocent.

" The Death Penalty is no more, at best, than a deterrant than a sentence of life imrpisonment ", would that be true?

Theres an interesting argument in which people think that Saddam Hussein should be put up for Capital Punishment and killed off, if it happens to him why not more?


My opinion on this is that it shouldn't be used under any circumstances, if you put someone up for the Death Penalty, then you would be just as bad as the killer himself, which is intentionally going out to kill someone themself.

It's a waste of money and time and a greater punishment would be life imprisonment because you could give punishment inside the prison, that would be worse. Theres more harrowing updated statistics on the Amnesty Website:

http://web.amnesty.org/pages/deathpenalty-facts-eng