The death penalty artificially ends someone's life. It's that simple. No matter how long the sentence, when you let someone live out their natural life there is an opportunity to set that person free if their innocence is discovered. If you kill them, that's impossible and there is no going back. It's that simple. I honestly don't know how it's difficult to understand the difference between the permanence of death and the impermanence of any other punishment we mete out in our justice system.
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