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The death penalty is among the oldest criminal punishments. It served three purposes : to punish a crime, to prevent its repetition, and to discourage crimes. The modern death penalty is imposed for similar reasons. However, the irreversible taking of a life is today considered abhorrent in criminal justice systems, notwithstanding the equally cruel prospect of life imprisonment. The basic objection to current death penalty laws are their inconsistent application, either by crime or by ethnicity.

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What is the importance of the death penalty to the law?

The importance is that the death of the convicted person could be wrong, and affects the court by making sure that they have the right person.Another View: (in the US) The majority of the citizens of 39 jurisdictions apparently are not in agreement with the first contributor.Defendants who receive the death penalty are not recidivists - they never re-offend.


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For. If most of the citizens in Texas did not want the death penalty, there would be no death penalty.


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Yes. Jamaica does have the death penalty.


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