life. This includes the most brutal of murderers and insane killers. Premeditated,

state sanctioned killing is not justifiable under any circumstances. Death penalty in an indication of how little our government values human life.

Capital punishment is cruel, both physically and psychologically. People have been executed who might have been innocent. The death penalty is not applied consistently, and it also discriminates against minorities and the poor. The average capital dependant doesn't have the money to hire O J Simpson's "dream team".

The electric chair is the most gruesome methods of execution currently practiced in the US. Although hanging and the gas chamber are capable of producing excruciating pain as well. Lethal injections are also being practiced but the torture that death penalty brings about cannot be taken out. The conscious human beings that are

The government does not have the right to kill, except in self-defense, as in a policeman firing on an armed and dangerous criminal. Also there is no difference between state killing and an individual killing. The result is the same... another dead body, one more set of grieving parents, one more cemetery slot.

We cannot over come crime by simply executing criminals, nor can we restore the lives of the innocently ending the lives of those convicted of their murders. The death penalty offers the tragic illusion that we defend life by taking life.

Of all the countries that still permit death penalty, only five use lethal injection, seventy three use firing squads, fifty eight hang condemned criminals, six stone them, and three still use beheading.

US is the only western nation that still allows the death penalty, and we also have one of the highest crime rates.

The methods of execution have all been found to be extremely and excessively

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