60 Pro Death Penalty Quotes by Supporters of Capital Punishment II
commented on Mississippi parish prays to end death penalty By Terry Dickson http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/mississippi-parish-prays-to-end-death-penalty/ "I don’t think
the state, in our name, should be taking lives. There are plenty of ways to
safeguard the public. I know plenty of people who are the family of victims who
say that (killing the killer) will never bring any kind of peace or
closure.” Rev. Dick Allison. |
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It is inconceivable, even ludicrous, for an organisation, such as the Inter American Commission on Human Rights, to suggest or dictate that Trinidad and Tobago abolish capital punishment. The people that run this organisation should live in Trinidad and Tobago
for at least three years to face the robbers, rapists or murderers. Capital
punishment is the law of this republic. [Why should we have mercy on killers? Thursday 9 August 2012] The criminals will never abolish killing, raping, or stealing. They show no mercy for their victims, so giving a life sentence (for murder) is not enough. They must pay for murder with their lives. [Why should we have mercy on killers? Thursday 9 August 2012] |
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[Why
Abolition of the Death Penalty was Important by Raymond Lesniak
on Wednesday 15 October 2008] richl October 15, 2008 at 11:41AM If it hurts some families of victims, what about those families that want justice. Are you disregarding them for the sake of your personal beliefs. You represent the will of the people...you are not the people's barometer. The death penalty is not a deterrent. It is a way to prevent violent criminals from committing the same crime over and over again. Why don't you show the statistics of repeat violent offenders?
[Why Abolition of the Death Penalty was Important by Raymond Lesniak on Wednesday 15 October 2008] cutmeabreak October 15, 2008 at 12:02PM
[Why Abolition of the Death Penalty was Important by Raymond Lesniak on Wednesday 15 October 2008] webeer October 15, 2008 at 1:12PMI'm glad the Death Penalty was abolished. With the liberal courts in NJ, there was no chance that it would ever be carried out. Personally, I wouldn't care if you hung these miscreants from any tree in my yard, but why perpetuate the farce? PS: Lesniak is a weenie. Why were 60 murderers sentenced to death and not the others? They are called aggravating and mitigating factors and the juries took them into account prior to passing the death sentence. Maybe our esteemed senator should have checked the statute he was questioning. [Why Abolition of the Death Penalty was Important by Raymond Lesniak on Wednesday 15 October 2008] peteredner October 15, 2008 at 12:00PM [Why
Abolition of the Death Penalty was Important by Raymond Lesniak
on Wednesday 15 October 2008] jbken October 15, 2008 at 11:14AM 2) Justice Blackstone, as with most judges, was by his position insulated from those 100 guilty people running around in his neighborhood. 3) 16,000 murders committed during a time when we had a toothless death penalty. The question is whether those 16,000 lives could have been saved if we had it, but I guess thinking in those terms would distract from your crusade to protect murderers. 4) If revenge is taken out of our justice system then how can you defend any punishment being levied for any crime? Murder is certainly the most serious but let's say someone libeled you on this blog and you sued them. Isn't that seeking revenge?
[Why Abolition of the Death Penalty was Important by Raymond Lesniak on Wednesday 15 October 2008] cruzer69 October 15, 2008 at 12:52PM |
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Do not repeal death penalty Published 05:54 p.m., Friday, March 23, 2012 - The argument that the death penalty is not a deterrent is of no consequence. It is not meant to be a tool for social persuasion, a looming threat that's likely to make someone stop and think before killing a fellow human being. It's meant to be punishment. Do not repeal death penalty Published 05:54 p.m., Friday, March 23, 2012 - The Legislature should be correcting a system that allows anti-death penalty advocates to engage in endless appeals and allow continued life to those who have absolutely no regard for it. Arguments against death penalty fall short Published 05:10 p.m., Thursday, March 22, 2012 by Jonathan J. Klein, Esq. Bridgeport - The thought of spending decades in prison does not seem to deter would-be murderers. That being the case, if opponents of the death penalty in the General Assembly take their non-deterrence argument to its logical conclusion, the General Assembly should do away with prison sentences for murderers, too. The only alternative punishment ever advanced by death penalty opponents is life in prison without the possibility of parole. Yet there is no evidence that the specter of such a punishment has ever deterred anyone who was not deterred by the death penalty. I do not believe that any state that has abolished the death penalty and substituted life in prison without the possibility of parole has experienced a detectable drop in the murder rate attributable to that change in the law. |
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Commenting on “When the killing hour arrives” Published: 30/08/2009 at 12:00 AM - Discussion 9: 30/08/2009 at 01:01 PM9 As long as the case is reviewed well without discrimination, death sentences should be carried out. These people are menace to society and we give them free food, shelter and clothing? We should put sentenced criminals to a place supported by these human rights organization. Let them watch, cook, and entertain them. i doubt if any of their members would actually give a single baht to feed these a******s. I’m sure they'll die of hunger. Let’s be real. If you say it's not effective, ask those criminals sentenced to die if they didn't regret doing their act. It’s plain and simple stupid to expect the criminals on the loose to regret first before they are caught and executed. Regret is always in the end. whoever is against capital punishment should try adopting or hiring a criminal and tell me if you can sleep well every night knowing that he is just around you
Commenting on “When the killing hour arrives” Published: 30/08/2009 at 12:00 AM - Discussion 21: 31/08/2009 at 01:08 AM21 Many people are quick to condemn capital
punishment (i.e. death penalty), BUT avoid seeing the TOTALITY of this issue,
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Here in Saudi Arabia, a serial child rapist is on trial for allegedly raping 13 young female students. The DNA test has proved his crime and all other agencies are expeditiously activated to prove the guilt of the rapist teacher. Those who often quote Mahatma Gandhi's observation that “an eye for an eye will make the whole world blind” must tell us where it will lead us if such criminals are left unpunished? Beheading murderers and rapists publicly serves as a deterrent to would-be criminals, whatever may be the arguments of the human rights activists against the capital punishment. |
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I have witnessed a horse being put down (due to an injury), though it was sad, we can agree it was the humane thing to do. I have had to put down a rabid dog, again, it was the humane thing to do because it had become a danger and thus, could no longer be trusted around others. And I believe that most people who have been around livestock and/or pets have a clear understanding of these acts. We have also witnessed P.E.T.A. bring lawsuits against anyone who keeps, virtually, any animal in a cage. [Letter: Quicker execution of death penalty By Charlie Raney in The Leavenworth Times Posted May 09, 2012 @ 10:54 PM] However, when the subject of the death penalty comes up, humans are NOT granted the same humanitarian acts. Why is it inhumane to keep an animal in a cage, and yet, keeping a human in a cage, for many, many years on death row, isn't inhumane? I feel that if someone has gone through the legal system and been found guilty of a crime that was so vicious that it warranted such a judgement, in my opinion. Why put a man in a cage for a longer duration of time than you would make a dog suffer through? If a man is so dangerous and vicious that he may never be trusted to walk around free men again, why shouldn't he be "put down" instead of being made to live in a 6' x 10' cage for the rest of his life? That, if you ask me, is very inhumane. The writer also brings to point that there are 17 other states who do not have the death penalty and he wishes Kansas to be the 18th. The District of Columbia is one of such states and they also have a very strict gun law. They are also No. 1 in the country in firearm murders. Or look at Michigan who has no death penalty as well. They are No. 1 in violent crimes. Yet, states like North Carolina have the death penalty and the right to carry. They have a violent crime rate of 0.85. Texas has the death penalty and is a right-to-carry state, they have been witnessing a drop in their violent crimes. Vermont has no death penalty, however they have the least restrictions upon their citizens when it comes to their God-given right to own and carry their firearms. They also have the lowest violent crimes and murder rate. [Letter: Quicker execution of death penalty By Charlie Raney in The Leavenworth Times Posted May 09, 2012 @ 10:54 PM] |
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Commenting on Why 'exonerated' needs to be used sparingly By Michael
Landauer/Editor in the Dallas Morning News on Friday 9 April 2010 Well the Death Penalty Information Center classifies all of those
exonerees as innocent, knowing full well that a significant number are actually
indeed guilty of the murders of which they were originally charged. That is
what is "false" Dr. Blankenship. Mary Kate has been
duped by the anti-death penalty crowd - Make a moral distinction Mary Kate. You and the Catholic
Church are totally wrong. There is no contradiction with being pro-life on
abortion and pro-death for murderers. On the one hand you have completely
innocent babies destroyed while waiting to be born. On the other, you have
vicious and vile human beings guilty of murder and the worst of atrocities. The
circumstances are totally different so you treat them differently, not the
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So, the United States is a progressive nation. The notion of eliminating the death penalty because innocent people may die is a misleading argument. Innocent people die every day on the highway, but we don't as nation ban mass travel even though the number of car accidents far outnumbers the amount of executions per day. After a plane crashes do we outlaw flying? No, because it serves as a means to an end. In the same way, the death penalty is means to a just end. [Give life to the death penalty By Ian Radzinski Published: Thursday, September 29, 2011] Ian Radzinski is a political science senior at the Oklahoma State University. He is also a columnist for The Daily O'Collegian.
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But I've always thought that the cost
argument just simply wasn't true. If the death penalty disappeared tomorrow,
the hundreds of lawyers who fight the death penalty wouldn't rest on their
laurels. They'd simply shift their focus to other attacks on the use of
criminal justice to punish criminals. Governments would still be spending the
same millions of dollars defending against collateral attacks on convictions;
they'd just be spending it on a different set of convicted criminals. Any
monetary savings from abolishing capital punishment would be illusory. [The expense of the death penalty December 13, 2011] |
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Commented on In Texas, a Death Penalty Showdown With International Law By Nicole Allan Jul 6 2011, 7:01 AM ET lauren_llc - Considering that Mexico doesn't allow the death penalty, I'd be surprised to find if a majority of Mexicans DO support killing Garcia. And actually, that applies to most countries around the globe.
Commented on In Texas, a Death Penalty Showdown With International Law By Nicole Allan Jul 6 2011, 7:01 AM ET - Espnfan99 - And what does Mexico have to show for abolishing the DP 7 years ago? Well they have headless corpses rotting in the streets and being hung from bridges. Why not kill and be part of a drug cartel or gang. the most you ever get is 20 years in jail. They even outlaw LWOP sentences. this is why the 3rd world needs to stay out of the US business. We dont want Europe or Mexico dictating Policy to us. Ever.
Commented on In Texas, a Death Penalty Showdown With International Law By Nicole Allan Jul 6 2011, 7:01 AM ET Redux46 - Not sure how isolated the US is internationally by this case. I'd be shocked if the vast majority of people around the world did not support Texas killing this killer/rapist. And that probably includes a majority of Mexicans. |
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Commented on Politics And The Death Penalty by Pat Archbold Sunday, July 10, 2011 8:53 PM Posted by Mary De Voe on Monday, Jul 11, 2011 10:49 AM (EDT): “But when a man kills
another after maliciously scheming to do so, you must take him even from my
altar (compassion, mercy) and put him to death.” Exodus 21:14 Capital One
Homicide. Premeditated murder. The condemned murderer must expire with grief
over his crime. The victim’s innocence is impugned. Did the victim deserve to
be put to death? The victim’s life is taken from him. The victim’s innocence
must be vindicated. The only way to ban capital punishment, the death penalty,
for capital one murder is to expunge homicide. Commented on Politics And The Death Penalty by Pat Archbold Sunday, July 10, 2011 8:53 PM Posted by
Anonymous on Monday, Jul 11, 2011 2:26 PM (EDT): Commented on Politics And The Death Penalty by Pat Archbold Sunday, July 10, 2011 8:53 PM Posted by
Mary Scott on Monday, Jul 11, 2011 2:38 PM (EDT): |
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Commented on Schwartz: Arizona should discuss ending death penalty by Bob Schwartz - Apr. 4, 2011 12:00 AM
Misterlightoller Apr-04 @ 1:48 AM - Prison (obviously) doesn't deter crime either. Do we do away with prisons? The old cliche of the death penalty not being a deterrent is all well and good. The simple truth is, no punishment is a deterrent. Ever got a speeding ticket? Do you still speed occasionally? The death penalty is just that...a penalty. Daniel Wayne Cook tortured, raped and murdered a 16 year old boy. He even admits to it. The boy's father is calling for Cook's execution. That is all the "victim services" that he is apparently asking for.
Commented on Schwartz: Arizona should discuss ending death penalty by Bob Schwartz - Apr. 4, 2011 12:00 AM
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Commented on Opposing capital punishment: Use of death penalty should not be up to the inmate By GEORGE NEAVOLL Published: Saturday, July 02, 2011, 3:21 AM
ogeregon July 02, 2011 at 3:45PM - What I find so hypocritical is all the bleeding heart liberals, so worried about the poor murderer, and not concerned about the victims. They see putting a brutal murdering animal to death as inhumane, but they support the mass murder of millions of innocent babies as "choice". Commented on Opposing capital punishment: Use of death penalty should not be up to the inmate By GEORGE NEAVOLL Published: Saturday, July 02, 2011, 3:21 AM
nwokie July 03, 2011 at 6:33PM - How about ted Bundy, absolutely no chance he will ever escape and kill another woman, now Charles manson, there is a real chance some liberal judge in California will eventually give him parole and he will hurt someone else. Commented on Opposing capital punishment: Use of death penalty should not be up to the inmate By GEORGE NEAVOLL Published: Saturday, July 02, 2011, 3:21 AM
Bad Drug July 03, 2011 at 2:21PM - How many children did Westley Allan Dodd kill before Jan 5, 1993? At least 3. How many did he rape? At least 50. How many has he raped or killed since Jan 5, 1993? Zero. That's the day he was hung. Enough said. |
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Who cares if he is a changed man now? All the apologies in the world are
not going to bring back the two young men he killed. So Smith had the
opportunity to educate and better himself. What about the two men six feet
under who would have loved to see their children grow up? [Think of victims By Joan Nelson, Calgary Herald May 28, 2012 - Re: "Capital
punishment drags state down to criminals' level," Naomi Lakritz, Opinion,
May 23.] I believe in the death penalty. After reading about the trial of Michael Rafferty and the pain and cruelty he and Terri-Lynne McClintic inflicted on Victoria Stafford, I believe they deserved the death penalty. The do-gooders who insist that lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment should read the transcript of Rafferty's trial. Anyone who takes a child, rapes and murders her and throws her in a ditch like garbage deserves the death penalty. It is time to stop feeling sorry for people who take a life. I don't
care if they are in a small cell for the rest of their lives. The dead are gone
forever. Little Tori will never have her dreams come true. Harvey Mad Man and
Thomas Running Rabbit never saw their children grow up. It is time to start
feeling sorry for the victims. [Think of victims By Joan Nelson,
Calgary Herald May 28, 2012 - Re: "Capital punishment drags state down to
criminals' level," Naomi Lakritz, Opinion, May 23.] |
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Commented on Kagel: Death penalty 'flawed, troubling' Published Tuesday, April 05, 2011 grove600 Tue., Apr 05 @ 9:36:28 am
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criminals also does not erase their crimes. No. It doesn't do that. No
punishment will bring back the victim. So what then? Do we just let a murderer
roam free because, slapping them on the wrist won't bring back the dead? The
death penalty prohibits them being a repeat offender. And it keeps them from
laughing at their victims survivors for 30+ years. Commented on Kagel: Death penalty 'flawed, troubling' Published Tuesday, April 05, 2011 Slubberdegullion Tue., Apr 05 @ 10:13:31 am - Yawn. Compare and contrast 2 cases: Timothy McVeigh and Charles Manson. Decades later, we're still confronted with Mason's aging tattoo and bizarre stare. McVeigh's sermonizing and smug countenance: gone. McVeigh got justice. Manson did not. Commented on Kagel: Death penalty 'flawed, troubling' Published Tuesday, April 05, 2011 Skull Tue., Apr 05 @ 11:13:08 am catman - Here's a flaw in your argument: No one is talking about letting convicted murderers 'roam free'. Instead, life in prison without the possibility of parole, a new life in a steel box, where time just drags on is their only foreseeable future. How completely depressing. Everyone must die. Not everyone must live ALL of their days in confinement, just those deserving such punishment. OK, if they do away with the death penalty they should come up with an adequate substitute. How about life in solitary confinement, never being around other inmates. Also, no tv's, weight rooms, library, or other perks. No visitors, no letters, no communication with the outside world. Maybe those prisoners would wish they were dead after a few years of such a draconian existence. And add in 24 hours of piped in Tiny Tim's greatest hits album. Of course, some whining liberal organization will complain about this being cruel and unusual treatment.
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As a Christian, I find it ironic that objections to executions are coming from Christians whose holy book enshrines the death penalty. They quote that Cain, the first murderer, was not executed. However, his was not premeditated murder but a crime of passion, and criminal-justice systems recognize this difference. These same Christians ignore the numerous scriptures that demand death for a host of crimes. Even the New Testament apostles had imposed the death penalty on two of their disciples for lying about contributions to the church. The futuristic book "Revelation" promises more death to criminals. [My Word: The sanctity of life - with qualifiers By Silva Kandiah Posted: 12:00 AM EDT, October 6, 2011]So those who object to the death penalty on the grounds of the Christian view of the sanctity of human life ought to re-examine their scriptures. The Bible forbade murder but enforced judicial killing. [My Word: The sanctity of life - with qualifiers By Silva Kandiah Posted: 12:00 AM EDT, October 6, 2011] These are the same arguments that nations use to send citizens to war; a few must die so that many can live. How is it so easy for us to send hundreds of decent soldiers to their deaths, and yet make such a noise about a few criminals? If we are serious about the sanctity of human life, then let us dismantle our armies and turn our swords to ploughshares. If not, then stop these sanctimonious chants against the death penalty. [My Word: The sanctity of life - with qualifiers By Silva Kandiah Posted: 12:00 AM EDT, October 6, 2011] |
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Simply, the current system allows for way too many appeals in court. I know that it is important to make sure the man is actually guilty before he is executed, but the excessive appeals system clogs up the process and costs a lot of money. If a man is convicted of a capital felony, it is inexcusable if they are allowed to rot in jail for more than two years, before they are executed. [Fixing the Death Penalty Sunday 6 November 2011] One of the major
aspects of the death penalty that use to make it such a great deterrent was its
shock value. Executions used to be performed in a public forum where anyone
could see the convicted hung, decapitated or killed in the way seen fit. In
fact, capital punishment used to encourage public participation. As far back as
stoning and as recently as firing squads: people of the community had a role to
play in the spectacle. [Fixing the Death Penalty Sunday 6 November
2011] Am I implying the government needs to just start hanging up criminals in the town green? No, but capital punishment should not be as secretive an activity as it is today. Part of what made the Roman Empire so intimidating was the fact that they crucified their unlawful on a hill or by a road. In this manner all passers-by could see the punishment, and hopefully not repeat this same crime. [Fixing the Death Penalty Sunday 6 November 2011] Arguing for public execution seems barbaric, and in reality it probably is, but it helps better serve the reasoning behind capital punishment. Society does not need to regress back to the days of gallows, guillotines and chairs either. The lethal injection is still an adequate means of execution – it just needs to be more publicized. As morbid as this may sound, people should have the right to view executions, take pictures and even publish them. The word needs to be spread and the people need to once again be scared of capital punishment. Only with a reasonable appeals process and some good old-fashioned shock value, will the death penalty truly serve its purpose for society. [Fixing the Death Penalty Sunday 6 November 2011] |
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Eminent criminologists and sociologists are of the opinion that harsh punishments strike terror in the minds of the criminals. They admit that many murderers sentenced to death were habitual criminals who had earlier committed murders. There is a direct relation of harsh punishments to crime rate. Statistics bears testimony to the fact that in the economically advanced American society where punishments are light, crime rate is highest; while in Saudi Arabia, where harsh Islamic laws are in force, crime rate is lowest. How is it that the western civilization permits the killing of millions of innocent people in Europe, Asia and Africa but forbids capital punishment of a single murderer. Former Chief Justice of India, Mr. R.C. Lahoti rightly supported the retention of death penalty. It is thus high time Parliament retained capital punishment. [Retain Capital Punishment Published on web at: 2011-11-13 18:23:55 +05:30. Section: Readers' Pulse section in http://www.radianceweekly.com] |
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Life without parole is a well-deserved judgment, but I believe it is less than what justice demands. Cold blooded murder of an innocent life calls for the murderer to forfeit his life. This would be a way to proclaim to all that we love justice here in Catonsville. [Life sentence not sufficient for man convicted of murder during Catonsville convenience store robbery Letter to the editor 8:55 PM EST, November 13, 2011 in The Baltimore Sun] |
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July 18, 2011 | 9:53 AM | By Sara Mayeux The high cost of capital punishment in California http://informant.kalwnews.org/2011/07/the-high-cost-of-capital-punishment-in-california/Comment
= Who cares what the voters of California want, lets
continue to prioritize the agenda of the public employees and anti-death
penalty activists right? Fetus' get the express line though don't
they? I mean you don't get a lot of aggravated murders by Fetus'...
in fact I don't think any Fetus has ever killed anybody... but without
any appeal process they don't have to sit on death row for decades either. |
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It is a sad day in America when doctors and nurses will not get
involved in the capital punishment of a murderer being defended being defended
by an ACLU lawyer. They are, however, willing to participate in the execution
of an innocent unborn child. God gives a special blessing to the first-born
children. How many of these blessings have been killed? While many
Bible-thumping people are protesting the execution of murderers, they forgot to
read their bibles. [Letter: Bible offers rationale for death
penalty By: Marvin Kroontje,
Magnolia, Worthington Daily Globe Published October 12, 2011, 12:00 AM] Alas, the murderer cries out, no cruel or unusual punishment. But what about the victim? Did he have a choice of living or dying, or in how he was killed? Does the murderer deserve any less? Who can replace a life taken? In the Sept. 17 Daily Globe, it was reported that the execution of a convicted double murderer in Texas was spared because a psychologist’s testimony said “that black people were more likely to commit violence.” Excuse me? That’s a reason to stop an execution? Give me a break. If the death penalty doesn’t help, look at Mexico without it. [Letter: Bible offers rationale for death penalty By: Marvin Kroontje, Magnolia, Worthington Daily Globe Published October 12, 2011, 12:00 AM] |
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It is true that occasionally innocent persons can get wrongly convicted and executed. We have to weigh that number against the number of innocent lives lost to unexecuted repeat murderers whose lives were spared. [Make economic analysis of death penalty 11:37 PM, Jan. 17, 2012] This
problem can be solved by simple differential calculus. The solution shows that
the sum total of innocent lives lost is lowest when the number of innocents
executed is equal to the number of innocents killed by freed murderers.
Abolishing the death penalty in no way saves innocent lives. The money spent in
trying to prevent executions is better spent in improving the system of
criminal justice. [Make economic analysis of
death penalty 11:37 PM, Jan. 17, 2012] |
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