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Capital Punishment: Arguments for Life and Death
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· Although the Parliament of Canada abolished the death penalty as a sentencing option in 1976 (Amnesty International, 1987), a majority of Canadians (approximately 65-75%) have indicated that they would support a return of the death penalty
· As a justification for capital punishment, deterrence is used to suggest that executing murderers will decrease the homicide rate by causing other potential murderers not to commit murder for fear of being executed themselves and, of course, that the murderer who is executed will not kill again
· The principles of retribution suggest that a murderer should be executed because he or she "deserves" or "has earned" the sentence of death
· Those who base their opposition to the death penalty
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