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There was a movie about the death penalty sometime back "The Life of David Gale"
*spoiler warning*
There was this harvard professor was strongly against the death penalty. At the same time his life was in shambles also ironically, he was convicted for murder and put on death row himself. *insert suspense plot twists and whatnots here* In the end you find out that he was innocent and that he framed himself to prove a point: there can be flaws in the system.
If there is even a remote possibility of excecution of an innocent man, it's enough to make me against the death penalty entirely. It's just not worth it. As well, death penalty doesn't bring back little girls, make women unraped and all the rest of it. It may bring short term gratification for those who are revengeful...but in the long run, the daughter is still gone, the woman is still frightfully scared of all men, and a thousand excecutions can't undo that.
On hte financial side of the argument it would save a lot of money to kill someone off rather than to provide food, cloth, shelter and all the rest of that basic needs stuff to prisoners.
On a side note the death penalty is TECHNICALLY applicable in Canada, no really...apparently you can recieve the death penalty for "treason", an ambiguous term, but it's there...although never practiced.
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