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 b

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.

We are a nation that prides itself on the basic principals of justice, liberty and we are the first ones to speak out against torture and killings by foreign governments. It is time that we look in the mirror.

A burgeoning global movement is harshly critical of the US on the issue of death penalty. The European Union has called on the US to end the practice. So has the Inter-American Court on Human Rights.

Many of those on death row may no longer be a threat to society, but for those who are there are options less cruel and unusual that don't put society at risk. Life without parole is one. A lengthy sentence with treatment with release conditional upon rehabilitation is another. Death penalty is an act of distilled hatred and it should b

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