Justice or Just a Waste?

Kara Sobolewski

Capital Punishment

IS NO LONGER

NEEDED IN OUR SOCIETY

TODAY

“When you use murder to end murder you guarantee murder

will NEVER END.”

THE DEATH PENALTY IS BEING ABOLISHED ALL OVER

17 STATES IN THE U.S. HAVE ABOLISHED THE DEATH PENALTY

COUNTRIES ACROSS THE

WORLD ARE ENDING

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT!

CAPITAL PUNISHMEN

T GOES AGAINST

THE EIGHTH AMENDMEN

T

EIGHTH AMENDMENT SAYS NO CRUEL AND UNUSUAL

PUNISHMENT

DEATH PENALTY

DOES NOT DETER CRIME

CRIMINALS ARE NOT THINKING ABOUT THE PUNISHMENT THEY

COULD RECEIVE WHEN THEY ARE COMMITTING THE CRIME

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS UNRELIABLE

MANY OF THE PEOPLE PUT TO DEATH OR ON

DEATH ROW ARE

INNOCENT

FRANK LEE SMITH

DIED AFTER BEING ON

DEATH ROW FOR

14 YEARS!

AFTER HIS DEATH, HE WAS

PROVEN INNOCENT WITH A

DNA TEST!

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS

MORE EXPENSIVE THAN LIFE IN

PRISON

THAT MONEY COULD BE USED TO HELP OUR SOCIETY

OUR SOCIETY WOULD BENEFIT

TREMENDOUSLY WITHOUT

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT!

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