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The Pros And Cons Of The Death Penalty

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Execution by legal order, otherwise known as the death penalty, is an unconstitutional punishment. Since 1976, there have been 1,425 executions in the United States (“Death Penalty Info”). Although the death rate for these capital punishments has gone down since 1999, however the United States is ranked 5th in the world for most executed by legal order “(Von Drehle)”. Many of these convicts are not given a second chance or given any other option of punishment. Retrials are important because some of these felons aren’t entirely guilty. According to David Von Drehle, “around 120 of the roughly 3,000 inmates on death row in America are not guilty”. America could be putting innocent men and woman to death. Reasons of the death penalty can be rape,
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