Ban it

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  by Nina Medeiros

  Created on: April 05, 2009   Last Updated: April 06, 2009

  The prolific H.G. Wells said that history becomes a race between education and catastrophe and this

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  by John Traveler

  Created on: February 04, 2012   Last Updated: February 05, 2012

  Just a few years ago, outgoing Illinois Governor George Ryan commuted the sentences of 156 death row

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  by Gillian Taber

  Created on: April 17, 2009   Last Updated: April 22, 2009

  I can't believe, in this supposedly enlightened age, that this question still needs to be asked. There

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  by James Boyd

  Created on: October 17, 2010

  Execution is cruel and barbaric and it should be abolished. Proponents of the death penalty endeavor

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  by Christyl Rivers

  Created on: July 28, 2011

  All civilized societies disallow murder if they wish to model behavior against murder.

  That said; let

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  by Greg Dunn

  Created on: February 10, 2009   Last Updated: December 22, 2010

  When examining capital punishment, I came across a quote by Mahatma Gandhi, "An eye for an eye makes

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  by Jenny Tolley

  Created on: February 04, 2009

  I believe the time is long overdue to ban the death penalty in the United States. I didn't always feel

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  by Curt Guillory

  Created on: September 01, 2009

  
  

  The punishment half of crime and punishment, has always been meant to be a deterrent. Since people

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  by Daniel Cooper

  Created on: April 15, 2012   Last Updated: April 17, 2012

  Rising pressure on the Congress to abolish the death penalty has for some time come in the headlines

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  by Samantha Teixeira

  Created on: August 01, 2009   Last Updated: August 02, 2009

  The death penalty, applied not only in the United States but in many other countries around the globe,

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  by Laurie Mcintyre

  Created on: February 24, 2009

  There is nothing that can take away the emotional hurt and trauma that families face after a murder

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  by Ikhraam Madarbux

  Created on: February 27, 2010   Last Updated: February 28, 2010

  If killing someone is considered as a sin, an immoral act in the eye of society as well as a disgrace

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  by Robin R

  Created on: March 12, 2010

  There is one thing that would be concerning in the death penalty so many inncoent people have been convicted,

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  by Duane Kuehn

  Created on: March 14, 2009

  The death penalty is been too often a waste of innocent life. The death penalty also shows itself not

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  by Muneerah B.

  Created on: January 16, 2009

  Eradicating Discrepancy

  The death penalty is not working in our favor because of the many complex issues