Thursday, October 8, 2009

Your Verdict on the Death Penalty

Using evidence from the text, state whether you are for or against the death penalty. Make sure to write in "Job" English with correct grammar and punctuation.

Your answer should be at least 1 paragraph.

45 comments:

  1. I am for the death penalty because its a smart idea and instead of people being sentenced for life in prison being sentenced for a death penalty is better and can safe a lot more money. The death penalty is also safer because how about if the prisoner broke out of prison he could try to kill the person who put him in!!!!!!.

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  2. Raheem Duncan said...

    I really don't know what side I am on. It doesn’t even matter, because it's up to the state so they have the control. Whatever happens happens. Death penalty is better than jail but it's up to what the state thinks.

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  3. My perspective on the death penalty is that I think they should allow it but then they should not. For example if it was for an murderer that has killed over 10 people , then yes they should be put onto death penalty. But if it was for someone who was protecting themselves or protecting their family they should not be put on death penalty. Just because they had to do what they had to. They were only using self defense. So therefore, I think Death Penalty should be used more, but just for certain situations. Also they should start too allow death penalty in more states, because murder has a big population now in the whole country. So they should be on the watch out and provide death penalty throughout every state. But just think twice about knowing who to give death penalty to. Also in the text it was talking about lifetime jail. Life time jail is as worse as death, there is a tiny chance you get less time. Also you might be put into the “jail hole” which means you cannot use the phone, cannot take a shower. It is just horrible. So therefore they should really think twice, but since the scientists, religious leaders ,politicians and more important people helped the death penalty become more known, they should come up with more ideas besides death penalty. But the judge will have to make the decision with the jury to see who will be able to get death penalty. It is just insane how the death penalty is played.

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  4. Using evidence from the text, state whether you are for or against the death penalty. Make sure to write in "Job" English with correct grammar and punctuation.

    In my opinion the death penalty is a perfect penalty for murderers and killers. The reason why I think that this penalty should be aloud is because some crimes are so harsh that the best punishment is for the criminal should be executed. Also the death penalty should only happen when there is a person who killed some body. This is called an eye for an eye.

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  5. They should use the death penalty because its more strict than life in prison. And if you go to jail you can still kill people in jail, so i think we should use the death penalty. The death penalty teaches you a life lesson and it makes you 2nd guess yourself about what you did. According to the text, They agrue that serving a lifetime jail sentence is worse punishment than death, and that life imprisonment costs less than capital punishment because death penalty cases are expensive to prosucute and usally result in numerous appeals.

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  6. Well I am with the death penalty because some crimes do deserve it.
    I heard one crime were a 18 year old man got a 15 year old pregnant
    And then raped the 8 month baby girl now for that he had 2 wrongs and that was statutory rape was one for dating and getting the 15 year old pregnant and then for raping the 8 month baby . In the passage they say some death penalty’s are “racist” or “classist” and I say not really because you don’t see all of the one who get the penalty are black or white or Hispanic . But in some cases I think its wrong because the person could have had did nothing wrong but they want to give it to him anyway and so here state it isn’t legal they send them to another state so they can have it . Also its sometimes is wrongly give like stated in the text because like Toqui the cript he won the Nobel prize but and created piece and turned his self around but then they still gave him they death penalty for creating world wide chaos and non stop killing so its half and half sometimes.
    Well I am with the death penalty because some crimes do deserve it.
    I heard one crime were a 18 year old man got a 15 year old pregnant
    And then raped the 8 month baby girl now for that he had 2 wrongs and that was statutory rape was one for dating and getting the 15 year old pregnant and then for raping the 8 month baby . In the passage they say some death penalty’s are “racist” or “classist” and I say not really because you don’t see all of the one who get the penalty are black or white or Hispanic . But in some cases I think its wrong because the person could have had did nothing wrong but they want to give it to him anyway and so here state it isn’t legal they send them to another state so they can have it . Also its sometimes is wrongly give like stated in the text because like Toqui the cript he won the Nobel prize but and created piece and turned his self around but then they still gave him they death penalty for creating world wide chaos and non stop killing so its half and half sometimes.

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  7. I think that the death penalty should not be allowed because its not good to kills others even if they have killed. why is it if i kill some one u kills me and your no better then me. So death penalty is wrong and i don't thinks its good to do it. That eye for a eye is a silly thing and i disagree with all this death penalty stuff.

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  8. Kishawra {chort swagger}October 8, 2009 at 9:03 AM

    Based on what I have read I am against the death penalty. I am against the death penalty because I think that although that person has committed many homicides that they should not kill another person that is just as bad. But then again I think that they should have the death penalty. Not just if somebody has killed many times before but think of other things you could kill them for because killing for killing makes no type of since at all get them for doing something good put them in a hole. If it was self defense in this matter than no death penalty. But, if it was just done intentionally then yes if betting is troche then let killing be the pain.

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  9. I am for it and i am also against it. I am for it because if you shoot someone on purpose that is taking someones life away.Mostly if they were a murder they deserve to die for being bad.I am against it because if i had to do self defense and i had to kill someone to defend myself i like do not have to do death penalty,because i was defending myself rather then letting myself get killed.

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  10. I am both for and against the death penalty. The reason why is because there is people all around the world that may have killed people in self defense. Like it says on the paper “- the death penalty can be applied for treason, espionage, and other crimes – the majority of cases involve the execution of people who have killed others.” Its really not fair if you get death penalty if you killed some one in self defense. Now if the person did it on purpose that’s a different story. They should first have a very good reason why and have evidence so that they don’t get death penalty. When giving an innocent person death penalty its like they are making a crime too, because they are taking the live of someone who didn’t do anything, except for trying to save there own life’s by killing some one else. If some one has killed some one for no reason and they are just trying to make up an excuse then, they can put him in jail and/or death penalty.

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  11. Using evidence from the text, state whether you are for or against the death penalty. Make sure to write in "Job" English with correct grammar and punctuation.

    My thought is I am for the death penalty but then again I am not because if you kill some one and they catch you then you should go to jail or get penalized because you did something wrong .You Kill a person that you did not like or you did not like or you had drama with them or you guys just have problems and you did not like each other at all for example "Proponents of capital punishment say it is an important tool for preserving la and order" .The reason I am again the death penalty because if you do kill some o e and no one finds out then they find out later on in life and they say that you have to do 10 years of jail for killing a person from 2 years ago it is unfair that you have to serve 10 years in jail.For example form the text " opponents of capital punishment say it has non deterrent effect on crime ".

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  12. I am against the death penalty because the text is says “the United States, for example, executed 1,057 people in the years of 1977 -2006.” Lets say if it was one of your family members and they killed someone what would you say. And would you let them do that to your son or daughter. Would u rather have them do life sentence.

    The people that are for it think about your family and how you will feel. In the text the people that are for it are saying that it cost less that life imprisonment because it prevents needing to house and feed the criminal for many years and that life. So the states only think about the money that they are spending to give life sentencing

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  13. My final verdict on whether or not I am for or against the death penalty is undecided. I don’t agree that it’s fair to kill 1,057 people between1977 and 2006. Some people should be sentenced to the death penalty depending on the crime. Also the retribution “an eye for an eye” is a good way to sentence someone of a murder. Another reason why I don’t like the death penalty is that the lethal injections they give people are not a good way to kill someone. If I were to kill someone I would hang him or her. It’s healthier at least the person won’t die poisoned.

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  14. ✰«ĎMÏŦŘÏ»✰ 〈‹Cohort Swaqqer›〉October 8, 2009 at 9:08 AM

    I say death penalty is a good decision for people that do bad things in jail and also people that defend there self shouldn’t get locked up because they didn’t do anything bad. According to the text, people that do bad things should get the death penalty because it is a bad thing they did. According to the text, the death sentence is worst because you are basically going to die. I would rather spend my whole life in jail.

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  15. I am for the death penalty. I am for it because if someone took someone's else life away, they should have their life taken away too, like they said in the article "an eye for an eye". Another reason I agree with it because if they keep the killer alive, they could escape from jail and kill more innocent lives.People who have killed should because if they go to jail, they have to house and feed that person and some people don't deserve that privilege.One more reason that I'm for it is that they could have murdered more people and never been caught before.

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  16. I am totally 100% against it. I’m against it because I know its not right to kill some one just because he or she killed another person. I know its wrong for America to kill about 1,057 just because those people kill other people, because it does not make them different from the killers. I strongly believe that instead of them being kill they should go to jail for life. I agree with the con death penalty that when government kills those people, it’s no effect on the crime because people are still killing each other. So that’s why I strongly disagree with the death penalty.

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  17. I am against Death Penalty but it might be necessary some times. For example if someone went on a killing spree and started killing random people for no reason at all I think they should get a Death Penalty. Then again I not for Death Penalty because if a person killed someone because there defending themselves then I believe a period of jail time is necessary. Regardless taking a persons life is wrong, and nobody should do it. I also think a Death Penalty is wrong because sometime the suspect can be innocent. Like the overview says, “They say it creates a system whereby innocent people are sometimes executed.”

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  18. I am against the death penalty because it doesn't make sense if somebody kill someone and they get killed back. Only people who kill people who are a cereal killer and don't make good decisions should get a death penalty. Also, what if your just trying to protect yourself and you get a death penalty for it, that wont be fare. If there was michael myers going around and killing people of course you would go and kill him. Then if you get the death penalty that would be wrong for you and then the people would be like "sorry it goes along with the death penalty".

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  19. The death penalty to me is okay because humans in general should be able to live life without being feared by death from others. And when the person invades someones life by taking it there's should be invaded as well. The death penalty should be allowed because if someone can kill a person they should be penalized specially if the persons hasn't done anything to harm anything. My thing that I think is good is that they can make there own desition

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  20. Using evidence from the text, state whether you are for or against the death penalty. Make sure to write in "Job" English with correct grammar and punctuation.

    I am against the death penalty because from my point of view, even though that they are governments, they have no right taking a life away like I understand that they re criminals and they’ve done wrong but still, they have no right of killing people. My proof from the text is, “Opponents of capital punishment say it has no deterrent effect on crime and wrongly gives governments the power to tale a human life making them no better than the murderers they execute.” The reason why I use that as my proof is because it backs up my point because it is basically saying, so what if they are politics, they still do NOT have the right to take a life away because they are no better than the person that they executed. Also, the reason why I am against the death penalty is because the text says, “They argue that the death penalty costs less than life imprisonment because it prevents needing to house and feed the criminal for so many years and that life, even in prison, is a privilege that some people should not have”. The reason why I used that text as the reason why I am against the death penalty is because if the governments are complaining about the housing they have to do for the prisoners, then what was the point of being the government.

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  21. Im against it because say if some one broke in your house and was trying to kill you and you had a weapon and killed them i think that you should be non guilty because you used self defence , so i think it depends on what you do to get a death penalty

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  22. The one I choose is for and against the death penalty. The reason why I chose for and against death penalty is because the people murdered other people for no reason and they should be penalized for what they did, so I think that they should be sent into the PRO Death Penalty because of there actions. ”The death penalty can be applied for treason, espionage, and other crimes-the majority of cases involve the execution of people who have killed other. The reason why I’m against them both is because a murderer could have killed a lot of people and then they coming after you I think that you should fight back and try to kill that person because your defending yourself, so I figure that the person that’s trying to murder you should have Death Penalty.

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  23. I believe the death penalty should not be allowed because what if the person they are accusing of a killer didn’t really kill anyone. Another reason the death penalty shouldn’t be allowed because lots of people that are innocent are sometimes executed just like they said on the 1 minute overview. When Michael Jackson died scientist said it was a cardiac arrest. But now a few months later they are thinking it was his private doctor that killed him. So lets say the death penalty was permitted. They would have just killed him just because the think he killed Michael. But what if he didn’t. This is why the death penalty shouldn’t be allowed.

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  24. Using evidence from the text, state whether you are for or against the death penalty. Make sure to write in "Job" English with correct grammar and punctuation.

    I am for and against the death penalty. I am for the death penalty in some situation only because I believe in an eye for an eye. I want people to feel the pain that I feel. It’s hard losing people and I understand that and the government shouldn’t be able to kill people but it’s okay as long as you’re even. I’m against because I got to think like what if that’s my family or me I wouldn’t want that but then again I did a crime so I deserve it.

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  25. I am for the death penalty because if you kill somebody you have to pay for what you did to the person and if I go to prison for 50 years or for life for selling drugs or kill some body. I rather die because prison is hell.

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  26. ((*Troi Newton*))They should use the death penalty because it’s stricter than life in prison. And if you go to jail you can still kill people in jail, so I think we should use the death penalty. The death penalty teaches you a life lesson and it makes you 2nd guess yourself about what you did. According to the text, they argue that serving a lifetime jail sentence is worse punishment than death, and that life imprisonment costs less than capital punishment because death penalty cases are expensive to prosecute and usually result in numerous appeals.

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  27. Using evidence from the text, state whether you are for or against the death penalty. Make sure to write in "Job" English with correct grammar and punctuation.

    I am all for the death penalty. I am for the death penalty because if you kill someone then I think you should be killed too. You should not hate someone so bad that you want to kill them there are other ways to express anger without killing someone. Everything you do has a consequence and by the time you think your old enough to kill someone that’s the time you should no that everything comes with a consequence. But I am not for the death penalty because if its something that’s not that bad you should go to jail or prison but if you kill someone and take there life from them you should be killed too.

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  28. I heard one crime were a 18 year old man got a 15 year old pregnant
    And then raped the 8 month baby girl now for that he had 2 wrongs and that was statutory rape was one for dating and getting the 15 year old pregnant and then for raping the 8 month baby . In the passage they say some death penalty’s are “racist” or “classist” and I say not really because you don’t see all of the one who get the penalty are black or white or Hispanic . But in some cases I think its wrong because the person could have had did nothing wrong but they want to give it to him anyway and so here state it isn’t legal they send them to another state so they can have it . Also its sometimes is wrongly give like stated in the text because like Toqui the cript he won the Nobel prize but and created piece and turned his self around but then they still gave him they death penalty for creating world wide chaos and non stop killing so its half and half sometimes

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  29. I am against the death penalty because I think that it is better for somebody to be left knowing that they killed somebody rather then killing them. The lesson will never be learned. Letting somebody’s emotions take control over them and letting it “eat them” out from the core is the worst punishment imaginable, They are the ones who have to live with the guilt hurt and pain by knowing that they caused some one else mental pain. Also with the fact that they have killed and now by them doing so their family has been embarrassed anybody who knows them is embarrassed humiliated and ashamed of them and that is another fact that they will have to live with for the rest of their lives.

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  30. ((*Troi Newton*))They should use the death penalty because it’s stricter than life in prison. And if you go to jail you can still kill people in jail, so I think we should use the death penalty. The death penalty teaches you a life lesson and it makes you 2nd guess yourself about what you did. According to the text, they argue that serving a lifetime jail sentence is worse punishment than death, and that life imprisonment costs less than capital punishment because death penalty cases are expensive to prosecute and usually result in numerous appeals.

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  31. I am undecided. I feel as thought there’s always two sides to a story. It all depends on what was the crime. For example rape should be put to death penalty. That’s taking advantage of someone’s mind (mentally) and physically. Murder should also be put to death penalty. I don’t think 1st, 2nd, or 3rd degree murder should matter; it’s still murder! The decision on death penalty should really be thought through. Only certain crimes should receive death penalties. If it’s something else, something that is as bad as murder but not as bad it should be sentenced to imprisonment. The maximum of 90 years or life.

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  32. I think that the death penalty should not be allowed because its not good to kills others even if they have killed. why is it if i kill some one u kills me and your no better then me. So death penalty is wrong and i don't thinks its good to do it. That eye for a eye is a silly thing and i disagree with all this death penalty stuff. I ALSO DISAGREE with Ajaijua becasue if some one kills your family why would you kill them back you have to learn ho to for give and forget. MR ROBINSON

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  33. I am STRONGLY against death penalty because it’s never a person right to say whether a person should die or not. The person should definitely have consequences but not there life. I think its wrong and I consider giving death penalty as a murder too. No matter what the person did its not ok, and the phrase “ an eye for an eye” is in a sense fair but still wrong. I think its fair because that person that killed the other person should go through what the other person went through. So I’m between the two.

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  34. Using evidence from the text, state whether you are for or against the death penalty.

    I am personally undecided to the death penalty. I don’t know which to pick. The convict both deserves it and doesn’t deserve it. The jury back then really didn’t care about lesser men. They just say guilty or not. No matter what evidence, even the smallest they convict them guilty. This is my reason.

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  35. Using evidence from the text, state whether you are for or against the death penalty. Make sure to write in "Job" English with correct grammar and punctuation.


    I would simply just say that I am on both sides for that question. I believe that killing a person for killing a person is just wrong. I believe that if some one kills another person they should just go to jail for it and not be killed for it. They should get consequences for it and not get their life taken from them. I think the death penalty is wrong because it is just a way of being a side taker of some one you don’t know.

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  36. I'm not Sure what side I’m on, but what I think is if someone kills another person, they should be killed but some people are mental and naturally have the urge to kill or commit a crime. Or they were sleepwalking. I researched that when you sleep walk, you don’t know what your doing and plus, you tend to do things that are complex, that you do in reality, but the difference is that your in dream mode and you tend to act out what your dreaming.

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  37. Hakim Iman Harris Jr.October 8, 2009 at 11:58 AM

    Using evidence from the text, state whether you are for or against the death penalty. Make sure to write in "Job" English with correct grammar and punctuation.

    I think that the death penalty is wrong because nobody deserves to die... at all. Granted the person did wrong or you think the person did wrong but death is not right. I totally disagree with Ajaijua( not to put her out there... Luv U!!!LOL) but even if someone in your family dies, the person who killed them needs to suffer consequenses but not through death.

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  38. To be honest I don’t agree with death penalty because people shouldn’t be able to die in jail. I think because they now that they did something wrong and they go to jail and serve time for what they did. Like is what the paper said “an eye for an eye” I don’t like that saying I don’t now why I just hate it. Okay in the real world out side the walls of jail people are killing each other no matter what anyone says, that what I think and people are killing each other in jail like it don’t matter what anyone does. When the paragraph said “They argue that the death penalty costs lees than life imprisonment because it prevents needing to house and feed the criminals so many years and that life even in prison is a privilege that some people should not have”, I think that when your in jail it costs the government money to have people in there because they have to give them food and clothes I think that Is what I think.

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  39. I am against the death penalty because that some times the person that is getting executed could be innocent and then come to an unnecessary death and only after his or her death some one proves him or her innocent. It’s the governments fault because their the one that came up with the death penalty for America, so when some ones executed the law and government is no better than the criminal.

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  40. In my opinion am in both sides. I say that because you shouldn’t be put in death penalty I you killed for selves’ defense. I also think you should be punished if some one killed on purpose. I feel that the death penalty is not worth it because the person that committed the crime is not going to learn its lesson, their family is going to suffer for the death. I believe in an eye for an eye because if you did some you should feel the same way that the person felt. The only way they shouldn’t be convicted is if it was self defense but other then that I feel they should pay for what they did too. Also at the same time it depends on what the crime was if it was a rape then they should be in jail fo r a minimum of 15 years. That’s jus t how I feel.

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  41. Shanara (American Eaglez)October 8, 2009 at 11:59 AM

    I am very well for the death penalty because it like if you kill a person, then you know what the consequences are going to be and also because I think justice should be served. For example if you kill someone’s family member then you should be killed also it’s an eye for an eye. Then am also against the death penalty because its like if you kill a person and then the government kills you then they are just doing the same thing that the convict did so what is the use. I think that if someone kills another then the deceased persons family should decide on what should happen to that person instead of killing but its their choice. I do think it cost more to kill someone then to keep them alive for the rest of their life because when you take s life then you put the killers family in pain just like the victims family. Also to get even with someone isn’t always death there are other ways to settle the problem maybe like I said the victims family can decide on what the government does with the suspect.

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  42. I personal feel that the death penalty should not be allowed. I don’t think that death penalty should be allowed because I personal think people came up with this because they believe an eye for an eye but really I think it pointless because I feel that yea someone killed or took a life but if you think about what will the person learn if they are put to death. I think keeping them alive is more painful then death because that person has to live though there life knowing the killed someone. I am going to tell you a story when I was 5 a drunk driver killed my father and at the time I want them man to be killed because I felt that was right because he took my dad from me but now thinking about yea he killed my dad but now he has to go around living knowing he took someone father and that doesn’t only effect him it will effect his family too. Point is even though someone didn’t something wrong no point of taking there life because it is like fighting fire with fire and nothing will be solved. I strongly believe that the only reason for death penalty is because people don’t want to take the time too see if someone was guilty or not, and that’s another thing you think it fair but what if you killed someone for something they didn’t done, that looks bad on you, so you tell me do you think it fair.

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  43. Mr. Murray


    I am against the death penalty because sometimes they don’t have to use the death penalty but only when you do a spree killing then you have to be put in the death penalty. For example if I did a spree killing and killed like 10 people at once I would have to be in the death penalty. I agree with Ajaija and Nadalia. But what Ajaija said really hit me because when someone kills your family member your are going to try to kill that person back because once you kill someone you can’t get them back. Nadalia said what was true that rape should be in a death penalty. So that’s what I think about death penalty.

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  44. i am against it but then again im for it. i am aganist beacuse i dont think people should be on a death penalty beacuse first they did nothing to the gov. i for it beacuse if some one killed someone in family i would want them to die. but theres no point of risking my life of killing that person that killed my family member . cause once there died they are died keith

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  45. I disagree with that Ajaijua girl... Amparo's seems to prove alot more points and makes much more sense to me

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