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Death Penalty: Fair and Just?
In America today, one of the most hotly debated issue is the death penalty and whether or not it is fair and just to execute criminals. This debate is clouded over by many free-floating rumors and false claims made by both sides, but there is also critical information that must be considered if any kind of decision is going to be made. Two of the strongest claims made by the opposition address man’s strongest instinctual beliefs by claiming many innocents are being executed and there is no biblical support for the death penalty. The risk of executing the innocent, however slight, is worth the justifications for the death penalty, those being the incapacitation of murderous men, the deterrent effects on violent crime, and innocent lives therefore saved.
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More than 14,500 people have been executed in the United States since 1930. There is no way of knowing how many have been executed in U.S. history because executions were often local......

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