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The Death Penalty
Today in our society the dispute over capital punishment has become one of the most talked about moral and judicial controversies. Capital punishment, the death penalty, has always existed in American history, and unfortunately it is still being used today. Even though polls and statistics have proven that capital punishment is inefficient, the government still insists that it is a just way to punish criminals and deter crime.
The judicial inefficiency of capital punishment has cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and it has cost some innocent men their lives. Most Americans believe that the death penalty is a cheaper way of justice, and they argue, “Why should we waste our tax money keeping criminals in jail opposed to executing them?” The financial expense of the death penalty is a weak case when talking about the value of a human life. Even so, the truth to the common myth of the death penalty being cheaper than imprisonment is that keepin...

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