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A major controversy facing the world today is capital punishment. Criminals no doubt deserve to be punished, and the severity of the punishment should be appropriate to their culpability and the harm they have caused the innocent. However, there are many reaso ....

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.... injection. Supporters of the death penalty believe it is a better deterrent than imprisonment because taking an offender’s life is a more severe punishment. They also argue that no adequate deterrent in life imprisonment is effective for those already serving a life term who commits murder while incarcerated, those who have not yet been caught but who would be liable to a life term if arrested, revolutionaries, terrorists, traitors, and spies. The classic moral arguments in favor of the death penalty have been scriptural and retributive. For example, the statement from the Bible that “whosoever sheds man’s blood, by man shall his blood be ....