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In the United States, the death penalty is currently implemented in one of five ways: firing squad, hanging, gas chamber, electrocution, and lethal injection. ... In reality, the murderer actually gets off easy when he is sentenced to death in the United States. ... The minute amount of pain experienced by the murderer on death row does not even begin to compensate for the pain of the victims. If the purpose of the death penalty was retribution, then criminals would be executed in the way they murdered their victims. But, the point of the death penalty is not to see how much pain can be unleashed on the murderer but to bring him to justice. A person sentenced to death suffers more than his victim suffered, and that this excess suffering is undue. ...
The death penalty does not punish people for killing, but for murder. ... Killing means to cause death. ... Death penalty opponents would like us to believe otherwise.
Approximate Word count = 761
Approximate Pages = 3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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