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[1]-Title, Author, etc.
-The Penalty of Death
-Written by H.L. Mencken, 1926.
-The thesis of the essay is on page 395, and is the last sentence of paragraph 3. It states:
"What I contend is that one of the prime objects of all judicial punishments is to afford the same grateful relief (a) to the immediate victims of the criminal punished, and (b) to the general body of moral and timorous men."
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.... stating that hangmen complain of their work, and he knows many who delight in and are proud of their work
-Second statement he attacks states: "[Capital punishment] is useless, for it does not deter others from the same crime".
-Attacks this by saying that people who state this wrongly conclude that this is the only reason why it is in effect
-States that this is only one of at least a half dozen reasons why it is in effect.
-Then reaches main argument: why the dea ....
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