The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.
Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.
Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Nothing will deter crime but the certainty of punishment.
The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.
Evolving societal values indicate that the death penalty should be abolished in its entirety.
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