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Should The Death Penalty Be Illegal Essay

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The Capital Punishment Were you aware that the U.S is among one of the top five countries with the highest numbers of executions? People everywhere think that the U.S is a place of hope and kindness, but do you how cruel and inhumane our laws can be? People who are sentenced to the capital punishment can be killed from being hanged to electrocution. This is why we should ban that law for good, not only so that their dreams become reality, but for us all to become a better community. Getting rid of killers won’t bring back victims.1471 people have been killed by the death penalty since 1976.That’s 1,471 lives that could have been put to work or changed for the better. 1,471 lives that could have spared our country some expenses and served their punishment in jail. David Von Drehle author of “The Death of The Death Penalty” says,“Why do we kill people who kill others to show them that killing is wrong?”. Instead, we should keep them confined in a room for the rest of their life, because that is certainly worse than death.
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