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| Death Penalty Is Necessary. |
| We Need Death Penalty To Punish Those Most Heinous And Ruthless Murders And Give Fear To Those Who Attempt To Act Those Merciless Crimes.For More Information About Death Penalty, Please Read here |
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I have been saying for a long time that we should bring the death penalty back. One of the only
things I have against it is that I have heard of previous cases where they have somehow found out
after the accused is dead that they were innocent. Therefore, the only thing I will say against it
is that they need to be certifiably sure that the accused is definitely the criminal before doing
so. However, in this day and age with the good DNA processes etc. I see no reason why they can't be
sure. Therefore, I totally agree with this! Why should we be spending our taxes on housing monsters
in cushy prisons? They should be dead! That will be a deterrent to other potential criminals....I am
of course talking about serious criminals like murderers and not petty criminals. |
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Nobody has a right to say who lives and who dies. And those who take that decision into their own
hands, deserve to lose whatever they took from another. |
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Not to mention saving resources you would otherwise expend to keep so many people locked up for
their whole life. |
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Yes. The death penalty is needed to keep prisoners in hand. |
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If you murder someone, you shoudl pay with your life. We can make that choice because we rule this
land and we must maintain order within in it. Order equals balance and it isn't balanced when there
is no life to pay when one is wrongfully taken. The SandyHook killer should die. Not that his life
alone would be close to paying for what he did |
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While a serial murder is in jail watching tv, playing the playstation 3 , talking to others. Out in
the streets are the nicest people you could meet looking for somewhere to sleep tonight. |
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Of course!
Why the hell do we have to pay for the murder's everyday expenditures in jail? Why do we have to
look after them? |
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100% agree with you here, for those who take a life, should have their's taken away from them! Thats
justice rather than sitting in a jail playing xboxs and PS3s, they have better care in a prison than
in a care home! An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. It is also great at deterrence. |
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Death penalty is essential. For heinous and disgustingly unacceptlable crime a brutal, slow and
painful death is needed to teach the criminal a lesson and make him regret what he did. He will get
the quick way out but will regret and feel guilt for his crimes through the pain and it will save
millions in tax money rather than having the person live through it. Life is the ultimate gift and
when somebody abuses the privellage in a horrible way then they should be stripped of that gift.
Death penalty would also serve as a detterant to criminals. |
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Yes it is |
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We need to execute everyone who murders someone.
All governments, the good ones and even the bad ones, are ordained by God and have the right and
obligation to bear the sword against those who practice evil.
Romans 13:3
3. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the
authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same.
4. For he is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear
the sword in vain; for he is God's minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. |
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An eye for an eye |
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I support the death penalty if either a person attempts to murder at least 20 people or if they
enter the US illegally. For details, please read what I wrote in " illegal immigrants should be
executed on the spot when discovered by authorities. |
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Somebody kills someone, they deserve to die. That's my logic. |
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I agree only if the evidence is highly conclusive and if the crime is suitable for the punishment
but i do believe for crimes like murder that this would be a suitable punishment. |
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I believe in the death penalty. I agree it could be a deterrent to crime...if it was carried
out...death penalty cases automatic State Supreme Court Review within 30 days, sentence carried out
within 45 days.... Why society should pay for murderers, who die easier than their victims is beyond
me....oh, lets be clear...there is a big difference between a murderer and a killer...what is it you
may ask? The killer is the one that carries out the death sentence on the murderer... |
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I am for it. I also believe that the following crimes means the death penalty. Child molestation,
raping a kid producing kiddy porn. Another case for the death penalty is taxing people too much.
Lol |
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The reason that the death penalty isn't as effective as it should be is that it isn't used enough!
What gives me the right you say, well the FACT is that I have the RIGHT to walk down the street
without being scared, beaten, robbed or killed. We are willing to put them away and throw away the
key but not to have the strength to do what is necessary because of our concience.Thats pretty
hypocritical to me.. Execution is different than murder, after you cross that line with murder you
have given the rights to your life away, they have a choice. The victim doesn't . There should be no
mercy for someone who has shown no mercy in his or her own life. People need to be held responsible
for there actions and a message needs to be sent to people eye for an eye. . These people arent
sorry they're cold, they dont care what you have to say. If it would have been you they killed they
wouldn't have any more remorse then they do already. Yes people can change but a person who was
murdered doesn't get the chance to have any life changes or see their kids grow up. I think some of
us have forgotten that the only reason that you have the ability to cry about death row inmates and
there feelings is because brave young men and women have taken many many lives in war so suck it up
and have the backbone to stand up for yourself and for your rights as an american . One in every 31
adults, or 7.3 million Americans, is in prison, on parole or probation, at a cost to the states of
$47 billion in 2008, according to a new study.Criminal correction spending is outpacing budget
growth in education, transportation and public assistance, based on state and federal data.
I think saving money would only be a bonus, let us build more schools and teach every one about how
its wrong to take innocent people's lives. P.s. I'm sorry for all the innocent victims of the system
they deserve a memorial. |
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I think if someone kills another person, they should be killed themselves. Its really not fair that
people get a few years in prison for murder and other extreme cases. Its not fair.
The death penelty is stilll around in some places in America which is a very good thing as people
like that really really shouldnt be granted the privilage of a life. |
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What is a fair punishment for killing someone
sitting in jail and getting TV three square meals and facilities that some law abiding citizens do
not even have?
The simple punishment for murderers should be death!!! |
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Yes. If you murder somebody, you do not deserve to live. Instead of murderers languishing in prison
for decades, paid for by tax-payers, they should just be executed. Those who show no mercy to the
innocent deserve no mercy themselves.
Of course, one has to make sure that the accused is definitely guilty before proceeding. |
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This is very simple.....an EYE for an EYE.... |
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First of all, my response will be well-considered, and I will not cuss you or use name-calling for
having the courage or audacity to bring up this, debate. Plenty of other debaters, likely will, so I
will leave the verbal-abuse to the lesser mortals. The domain of the animal to them. And bring this
topic to a higher level = The Mind.
Good topic, by the way.
No matter what the religious community says, and I have heard it all; there ARE degrees of
wrong/sin/crime.
This topic presents a very good venue to analyze this fact :
1. Murder is taking someone's life with malice-aforethought.
2. Execution is the State taking the life of a convicted murderer.
3. Killing can be the hunting of animals for sport or for food,
and in Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy etc etc they killed
for sport and for "fun" only it is of fellow-human-beings.
4. Accidental-Death is when someone's life is taken but not
with knowledge-aforethought, like a car-accident.
5. Euthanasia, and this is called, "mercy-killing" suicide, only
the hiring of a Physician's hand to administer the poison,
the medical equivalent to the gunner in the back of a black
limo by the Mafia......Some think this is murder too.
6. Self-Defense : Someone tries to rape or murder you, you
do them in before they can do you in. Dog eat dog world.
There are many levels and forms of taking of human life.
To understand this fully one must look at this topic from many
angles, to fully realize what this topic entails and ethics involved. |
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ABSOLUTELY!!!
From a prior posting in a similar topic:
Hell Yes!!! Bring back the Death Penalty! First it would save the different levels of government
(ultimately the tax payers) a whole lot of money. Not having to pay for the babysitting services of
thousands of adults would please everybody's wallets. Secondly, the number of prisoners in the
United States is staggering...bringing back the Death Penalty would enable us to free some space
which would in turn again save a ton of money (not needing upgrades to prisons or new prisons,
etc...). Thirdly, bringing back the Death Penalty would (hopefully) lower the crime rates...if the
criminals know that there actually is an ultimate punishment then prehaps they would think twice
about breaking the law. And if the crime rate did not drop because criminals didn't care about the
penalties of their actions...then oh well, they would be sentenced to death so their loss...I would
not lose any sleep.
I only wish that if they did / when they do bring back the Death Penalty that they decrease the
amount of time between sentencing and the actual carrying out of the sentence. Give the person a
little time to appeal and then (provided they lost their appeal) kill them.
Cleanse the community!!!
Nolimit 17 Nov 2008 01:11 |
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Some people say its not right to kill a killer and if you do that , then your no different from the
murderer. Oh really? Big difference between killing, murderering, and executing. Murdering is
killing an innocent person purposefully for some messed up reason, killing is the ending of ones
life, and executing (death penalty)is the killing in the form of punishment for a person who
murdered and ruined the lifes of others.
People will argue that it doesn't solve anything. Well you may be partialy right. I don't believe it
deters anyone from murdering and or raping but i feel the person doesn't desearve to get pleasure or
enjoyment out of life wether its masturbating or looking at the sky or seeing any sights for the
slightest fragment of a second after wat they have done because now the victims cant either. I
really would like some one to prove me wrong |
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I believe it is. |
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As long as it isn't painful, it isn't cruel, and it isn't unusual. |
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It is highly necessary. Considering all the innocent lives that are taken is rediculous! It majorly
depends on what they do, though. |
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Some people deserve to die immediately for what they've done(ex:9/11,Columbine,VTech,Helter
Skelter's group) but i also believe that others should live a few years because death is too good of
an easy way out for them, but i'm the type of person that believes that if you've killed someone,
you deserve to die. Same thing goes with rapists,child molesters, and such |
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Yes, I believe the death penalty should exist. I think there are crimes that people cannot come back
from. Point and case, Joseph Edward Duncan, who had a history of child assault and molestation
charges going back to his teenage years, gets out of prison and kills an entire family save for a
young boy and girl. He then takes the boy and girl to a campground where he sexually molests the boy
over and over. The boy eventually stumbled out in front of the girl and Joseph puts a gun to the
boy's head and kills him. The girl saw her brother get his brains blown out. Then Duncan takes the
girl to a restaurant a week or two later where the waitress recognizes the girl and calls the
cops.
Are you telling me this guy can be saved? If you think he can be saved, why don't you let him live
in your neighborhood and play with your kids...maybe then you'd understand after you kid turns up
raped and murdered. I say a quick death penalty is letting these people off the hook too soon. I
like when the chair acts up on people like Duncan and doesn't kill him the first couple of
times...
Besides the fact that keeping people like Duncan in prison and paying for his psychologists,
psychiatrists, and all the meds he'd be on would be costing the taxpayers an arm and a leg. Slap 'em
in the chair and let 'er rip! |
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I believe if someone kills another person the murderer should be killed. |
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I agree there are already high crime rates in the u.s. No matter what party holds the presidents
seat. Why do we want to keep people alive and continue paying taxes on them to eat three meals,
have an exercise activity, smuggling drugs in prisons, arranging more crime, murders should be put
on the death penalty and they should be given a maximum of 1 year before there day comes |
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Eye for an eye, the way I see it. I don't see why my tax dollars should pay to keep a murderer alive
who is serving a life sentence. |
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For crimes such as murder, rape, child abuse and terrorism it should be brought and should be
applied when there is absolute proof, indisputable DNA evidence, caught on camera or reliable
witnesses then it could be very necessary to a country like Britain. |
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I do believe that the death penalty should be present for people who murder, rape, molest, such and
such. They do not deserve to live!!! |
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A eye for an eye don't make things better. It just makes two people blind.
(Its a saying not a literal thing.) |
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Actually, government surveys in the US have proven that states without death penalty have a much
lower crime rate than those with death penalty. So its clearly not a crime-deterrent.
That aside, No one can prove or assure us that they know exactly where people go off to when they
die. How can we be so sure that these criminals are actually being somehow punished after death? It
think it makes more sense and is more assuring to simply send them to jail, where we KNOW that they
are being punished and are suffering.
That aside, death penalty places a risk on those who are innocent. Many countries have a legal
system where if you're rich you can easily afford a good lawyer and get out of your case. Its all
about who can fight their case better not about who is actually guilty. So given the circumstances,
it is too risky to pose such a threat on all of us with death as a punishment for it is utterly
permanent. |
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raya 16 Jun 2012 14:55
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It is a primal response to a morally complex issue. Humans should moved beyond this primitive
mentality eons ago.
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Death is the easy route out of their offence, as it is an instant punishment. If guilty, they should
have to suffer for the rest of their life for what they have done. If not guilty and falsely charged
then they should have the opportunity to find more evidence so that they may be released. There is
always the possibility the 'criminal' may have been set up and could be innocent. Till they find
this evidence, however, I'm all for painful torture. |
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No you should just keep the criminials in jail for life not kill them... |
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Under no circumstances should someone take a human life!!!!!
Unless said person is medically ill and they are on life support and wish to be disconnected or as
in abortions they cant feel it or understand it |
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The death penalty does not work as a deterrent, because criminals do not believe they will get
caught. As such, the severity of the punishment makes no difference. Also, there is too much risk
that we will kill someone who has not committed a crime. If you falsely imprison someone, they can
be released; if you falsely execute someone, there's nothing you can do.
Justice is not about satisfying the emotional need of "that person did something wrong, we must get
them back for it". Humans do not need a legal and judicial system to facilitate revenge. Justice is
about taking rational steps to protect citizens from crime, and given the argument against deterrent
above, there is nothing that execution can do to protect people that life imprisonment can not. |
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I think that death penalty is necessary but only in extreme cases like repeted offences from
terrorsts and othe cases like that but it would make the world a less peacful pace if we used the
penalty all the time . . . |
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If someone killed my daughter and I was able to get my hands on him, I would kill him. But that is
revenge, anger, and emotion not justice. That dead murderer can't feel pain anymore. Rationally I
would rather have someone suffer a life time of guilt then get out of it with death. But if that
murderer is a psychopath or a sociopath there is no guilt and they need to be removed from society,
and I don't know if death is the right thing. It's like killing a bird because it flies. |
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Better to let them stay in prison and rehabilitate them than to just kill them. That's a brutish,
unintelligent way of dealing with problems.
"Hey! That person did something bad! Let's kill them!" |
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Depends who you are. |
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I'm on the fence with this issue. Honestly, its bigger than me. |
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I have to say that I am against it. The reasoning is, I don't believe it to actually have an effect
on the alleged perpetrator of any crime.
Speeding is a crime. The logic in that is; when you are driving above the posted speed limit, you
are endangering others on the road. Unfortunately, many people are killed in driving related
accidents or collisions if you prefer. If traffic violations were a crime that carried with it a
death sentence, would that stop people from speeding, running red lights, not using turn signals,
driving while under the influence of drugs or alcohol (the list is huge) ? I doubt it. I would
postulate, that if you are going to commit a crime, you are willing to accept the punishment,
whether that punishment is known or unknown to the alleged perpetrator.
On a side note here, doesn't the killing of an inmate effectively end their sentence as they are no
longer living in a cage, but rather no longer living ?
Killing is wrong. Don't do it. |
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It actually costs less to keep people in jail for their entire life than to execute them (due to
court appeals). I also do not think it is a very nice thing to do.... People can, although
sometimes rare, at least change internally. |
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So when you murder someone, it is because you as an individual do not have the authority to say who
lives and dies...so sending someone to death in court implies that if you have 12 people who say
"YUp, you no what that guy can die" its legally right???
No, when you kill someone you don't automatically hand you life card into your ruling govnt. |
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I disagree I believe that no man has the right to take the life of no man or woman's life under any
circumstances. Yes it is wrong to kill to kill family,rape women, rape children,and kill a body of
people. But are you no different than the killer if you kill him or her. Yes you may have had a so
call honorable reason of killing him or her but at the end of the day you still took that man or
woman's life. I say let the killer feel the pain of the family mentally let him sleep in the bed of
person he kill let them live in house that the person kill live in (of course with police around)
let him or her learn about the person they killed till they cant stand it. |
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I disagree, although not completely. Some people murder because they are provoked, are acting within
self defence or defence of others. Also, there are people more evil than murderers at times like
seriel rapists and paedophiles. Yet, giving them the death penalty is the easy option, give them all
tough mandatory life sentences where they work to live, if not, let them stare for a few days but
keep them alive. I know if I were a criminal, I'd rather be given the death penalty than be tortured
for years or even life. |
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No I believe the death penalty is the easy way out. |
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No no no death i f you think about it is death really necessary we all make mistakes and death is
creel. |
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I disagree with this because, even though there are terrible people in this world, what does killing
them solve? They'd be gone, yes, but without being given the chance to learn and grow and see their
fault. What kind of people take away the chance for someone else to find themselves? To find God? To
apologize? If anything, killing them is not punishing them, a real punishment would be to let them
live every day knowing in their heart what they did was wrong, and having to live with that pain.
Death penalty is the same as murder, it's not justifiable. To kill them would be endorsing crimes
and sin. Thou shalt not kill. Plain and simple. People make mistakes, and some dont learn til late
in life, but you never know. How can we just give up on people like that? |
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Problem is when they get the wrong person, That becomes murder.;-( |
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There are other types of punishment, STRONG PUNISHMENT |
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When you think about it yes the people who are serving time in jail do deserve to be punished but
they they are already being punished by living in a jail cell. Their freedom is taken away. The last
thing they have is life. Everyone makes mistakes but you shouldn't take their life for it. And if
the crime they committed was murder then you are doing the same thing they did continuing the cycle.
They took a life so take theirs. That's not the way two wrongs don't make a right. What if they were
innocent sitting behind bars? How would you feel then? Killing an innocent human being? What
then?... |
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I don't really get the point of the death penalty......yes you are punishing someone for what they
did to another human being and such....but wouldn't you rather have that person live their life
horrible...locked up....screamed at....etc....why would you want them dead...that is just letting
them off easily... |
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I would never say that it is wrong to kill people if it hadn't been written in the bible that
killing a human is not allowed, but it is.
And an other point is that there were people who had been punished by the death penalty ,who hadn't
fault on the crime ,which had been discussed.
But they were already killed so you had no chance to rehabilitate them. |
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I might support the death penalty If I had more trust in the accuracy of the legal process. |
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Compared to spending the rest of your life in prison, death would be sweet and not a punishment.
Thou shall not kill. |
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What good is it to kill someone? How would it help? I think we should him or her behind bars for the
rest of their life instead of death. |
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We aren't the ones to give or take life from someone, that's god's job |
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Its an uncivil act. |
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Let's think about the degree of suffering that the prisoners must have. With the death penalty, it
is possibly a minute of pain, and then death, while with a life sentence, you live in your cell for
countless years, doing nothing. To me, spending my life in prison would be a lot more painful than
death, and if we are concerned about equaling the amount of suffering that killers gave to their
victims, then life in prison is the better option. |
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What if someone didn't do the crime and gets killed |
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