Why Is Death Row Inmates Wrong

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Releasing Death Row Inmates: An Excuse for the Kind

Re: “In fact, the crimes of people sentenced to death are no worse than those of many others who escape that fate”, from The Death Penalty, Nearing Its End.

How much more could you be so wrong? Inmates who are sentenced to death obviously belong there for a reason. They don’t pick and choose who get’s to go on death now do they.

The severity of the crime is the biggest reason why they are sentenced to death row. If someone were to murder an innocent baby in a very gruesome way then they would, more than likely, be sentenced to death then someone who had smoked an illegal drug.

My problem with this statement is that the people who were not sentenced or were relieved of death row had

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