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For many years the controversy of capital punishment has taken place in many different forms. Such as hanging, electric chair, lethal injections or gassing and there are many more ways. Are these the right type of punishments? Some people say that they took another life into their own hands, “ an eye for an eye”.

       

       However, the discussions about capital punishment have been endless, although capital punishment happens in some countries a lot of people are against it. Neil Bortz from Atlanta says, “turn on the juice, fry him, and don’t let us hear his name again”. Obviously, there are facts that innocent people have been on death row for doing nothing. More importantly the death penalty is also seen as a deterrent (a American totem), so they know there are strong punishments if they commit a serious crime, so it is used to warn them. Furthermore, the US prison population was 182,000. After the death penalty more than 510,000 of the population locked up, this results to over crowding and much more money spent.

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       Moreover, a source of information was recorded in neighbouring states, and it clearly says that the states that have the death penalty commit much more crimes, than states that don’t have the death penalty. E.g. Iowa a non-death penalty state that doesn’t have the death penalty has a 30% less than Missouri a death-penalty state.

       Never less, there has only been one execution for every 1,600 murders (0.06%). On capital punishment people maybe slightly more relaxed.

       For example, in California there were 561 people awaiting execution. 201 ...

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