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Capital Punishment: For
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"execution prevents eighteen murders per year."(Hirsch, 122)
Opponents argue that capital punishment is immoral. But if you follow
the Old Testament, it is moral. In one passage from Genesis, “Whoever sheds the
blood of man, by man shall his .... Middle of Term Paper
... society(Samaha, 441).” According to Professor
Ernest van den Haag: “The life of each man should be sacred to each other man...
it is not enough to proclaim the sacredness and inviolability of human life. It
must be secured as well, by threatening with the loss of their own life those
who violate what has been proclaimed as inviolable-the right of innocents to
live” (Haag, 67).
Other opponents argue that there is the chance of executing an innocent
prisoner. Hugo Adam Bedu and Michael L. Radelet collected evidence of every
capital punishment case after the 1930's. They concluded that 23 innocent
people, out of several thou ... |
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