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It is well documented that capital punishment does not work as a deterrent. Partly brought about by the fact that a homicidal killer is amoral and thinks nothing of having their own life taken. Most career criminals have the same characteristics. The US has more people on death row than any country in the world and it is clear that the death penalty is not working there. The legal system that kills innocents is another ethical problem in itself.
Sterner prison sentences do on the other hand work.
So a big fat no for the capital punishment from me.
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