bad points about death penalty are, you also make the friends/fammily of the one sentenced to death suffer.
innocent ppl sentenced to death cant be compensated for, coz they dead.
and if 1 murder leads to a death penalty, theres a good chance that murderer will murder plenty more people, coz it has the same punishment on it, and if thats whats needed to possibly get away, he wont care anymore.
besides, i think capital punishment only work when criminals plan their crime, if its in a situation like, some guy sleeps with his wife >> guy goes insane, grabs a gun, and kills the guy, he dint think about the punishment he'dd get for it.
so even though he will be executed then, i dont think it would bring down the crime rates a lot.
just my 2 cents (and dint read whole topic, so aint sure if some off this stuff was posted before

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