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"A Matter of Life and Death"
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Neil Cowan Discursive Essay 4G11 01/02/04 "A Matter of Life and Death" Lethal injection, electrocution, hanging, beheading, stoning. Just some of the ways used to murder people in many countries across the world. But the difference with these murders is that they are committed by the state, they are given the name "capital punishment". The claim is that they are justified as a means of punishment, but can intentional killings ever be justified? Or is, as I believe, murder simply murder no matter what the reasons behind it are? Capital punishment does not work as a deterrent, this is proven fact. A survey conducted by the United Nations in 1988 and again in 1996, failed to find a single piece of evidence to support the claim that a prospective murderer wouldn't murder simply because of his or her countries use of the death penalty. Are we really to believe that cold hearted, psychopathic killers think about...
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