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Without capital punishment (the death penalty) our lives are less secure and crimes of violence increase. Capital punishment is essential to control violence in society. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

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Regarding the fact that we are living in the modern world, quite a few
people
 make an effort to determine new profitable approaches
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 warrant issues.
Consequently
, a considerable number of
people
 firmly state that chastening is crucial in order to ensure peace and
tranquility
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,
while
 the other majority of
people
 unanimously denounce and claim that executions of felons should be banned. Personally, I hold the view that we should ponder over
this
 tender subject equally and properly. The following essay targets to support the mentioned statements above with appropriate reasons and instances.
Above all
, I would like to point out that unfortunately, even after several centuries
people
 still continue to commit brutal crimes which are considered to be threats towards the safety and
well-beings
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 of citizens.
In addition
, it is apparent that we come
accross
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across
with
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several news every day about innocent
people
,children and animals getting killed ruthlessly, massive robberies,
youngsters
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and youngsters
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 getting kidnapped, raped and murdered.
Therefore
 some countries still
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 capital
punishments
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punishment
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 in order to put an end to
such
 barbarisms.
For example
, in
Iran
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 the death penalty or cutting fingers or sexual organs of criminals are being applied.
On the other hand
, we must take into that some crimes
happenes
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happens
happened
happen
 unintentionally or because of some external triggering factors and they force that person to do something illegal or murder someone
while
 self-defending
yourself
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.
Such
 fatal punishments could bring up serious mental traumas not only in felons
,
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 but
also
 in their family and
beloved
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 ones,
therefore
 since we are living in a contemporary society I think that it would be better to avoid
such
 extreme penalties to ensure a mentally healthy environment. All things considered, I am highly confident to restate that even if capital punishments are traumatizing events,
but
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there is still a need for them to guarantee safety and decrease the amount of violence.
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