... Angeles, "Capital crimes are often impulsive and unplanned. The death penalty serves no purpose in the effort to control crime, and must be seen as the most brutal, irrational kind of revenge (Spence 103)." One can also look to other countries to find statistics that back up the argument that the death penalty has no effect on capital crimes being committed or ... many people do not look at other alternatives of punishment. It seems that the outcry of the public may be like the title of that Metallica album, "kill em all". This situation leads back to the old saying of "violence breeds ...

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... a certain crime. The crimes that capital punishment is mandatory for in certain countries include murder, armed robbery, kidnapping, rape and treason. The methods of capital punishment that are globally used today include hanging, shooting by firing squad, electrocution, poisonous gas, lethal injection, beheading, and stoning. Already about ... believe that if somebody takes a human life, they, in turn, deserve to forfeit their own. But we can't resort to the revenge of "an eye for an eye", because that only would make the punishment as unjust, as immoral and as barbaric as the origina...

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