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Without capital punishment, our lives are less secure and crimes increase continuously. Do you agree or disagree with this statement?

#punishment #lives #crimes
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Some people advocate that the crime rates have been rising because capital
punishment
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 no longer exists and as a
result
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 the level of
security
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 is dropping as well. I disagree with
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 statement since
death
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 won'
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 be punished for every criminal.
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, it might be unfair and it might break the balance between crime and justice.
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, capital
punishment
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 doesn'
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 hold justice together by just itself and
death
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 won'
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 be enough for some criminals to get educated or feel upset about what they have done. It will let them free from the guilt which they will experience while they in prison.
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, one kind of
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 couldn'
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 hurt the
security
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 level we have at the present.
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, the
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 sentence isn'
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 convenient for all the crimes in the world.
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, capital
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 is still applied in some countries.
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, when we look at the crime rates of that countries we can easily see that they are still increasing.
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, it would be wrong to think that the increasing crimes are related to the absence of a
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 sentence. On top of that, the public should trust the honesty of the judges and juries. But with capital
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 how can we be sure that it was the right thing to do in order to maintain
security
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?
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, if a judge will decide to end someone's life, what would be the difference between the judge and the murderer who is judging at that time in the court? To summarize, some people advocate that our
security
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 levels are decreasing and crimes are increasing since the absence of capital
punishment
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. I firmly disagree with
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 because
death
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 won'
t
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 be appropriate as
punishment
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 in our advanced world.
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, it wouldn'
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 be fair if we decide to kill when we are judging them.
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