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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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