Thousands of people die at the hands of the government of the United States every year. This is a problem. The government was formed to protect its citizens. It is a social contract. I don¡¯t think that we would willingly sign a social contract with the current systems of capital punishment prescribed as it is today.

Maximum security prisons and Life Sentence without possibility of parole.

Vengeance. Killing leads to more killing. If the government can justify killing, then it is justifiable.

National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

http://www.ncadp.org/news_headline_10_28_2003_fiscal.html

http://www.cacp.org/pages/587878/index.htm

The government does have an obligation to protect societies from its aggressors. But given the resources available to the US government for restraining criminals, the carrying out of the death penalty is practically nonjustified and unnecessary.

Modern society has the means of protecting itself without resorting to capital punishment.

Paul Hill murdered James Britton to teach the lesson that abortion is wrong. The state of Florida put Hill to death by lethal injection to teach us that killing is wrong.

From http://www.cacp.org/pages/585136/index.htm

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