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The Controversy of Capital Punishment
A major controversy facing the world today is capital punishment. Criminals no doubt deserve to be punished, and the severity of the punishment should be appropriate to their culpability and the harm they have caused the innocent. However, there are many reasonable, less controversial, and far more efficient methods of dealing with serious crime within our system without going to such extremes ....
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.... terrorists, traitors, and spies.
The classic moral arguments in favor of the death penalty have been scriptural and retributive. For example, the statement from the Bible that “whosoever sheds man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed” (Genesis 9:6) has usually been interpreted as a divine warrant for putting a murderer to death. “Let the punishment fit the crime” is its secular counterpart; both maxims imply that a murderer deserves to die. ....
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