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Jay Sawyer from Glenview, IL Strongly Disagrees with Capital Punishment

Jay Sawyer from Glenview, IL is against executing people who have committed serious criminal offenses in United States. He makes a statement that death penalty implements only one form of justice. It creates a framework that allows an eye for an eye, rather than taking a morally higher ground. He strongly states that it is not right to assume that something that is legal is morally correct.

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Jay Sawyer from Glenview, IL Strongly Disagrees with Capital Punishment

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  1. Jay Sawyer from Glenview, IL Strongly Disagrees with Capital Punishment

  2. Jay Sawyer from Glenview, IL Considers that Capital Punishment is a Scar on Justice • Jay Sawyer from Glenview, IL is against executing people who have committed serious criminal offenses in United States • The capital punishment is reserved for brutal and heinous crimes such as first-degree murder • Some people believe that although arguments can be made for rehabilitation, some would continue their violent tendencies no matter what • Thus, capital punishment is the only way to keep people safe in such circumstances as it provides a sense of justice for the victims

  3. Sawyer Strongly Disagrees with Capital Punishment • He makes a statement that death penalty implements only one form of justice • It creates a framework that allows an eye for an eye, rather than taking a morally higher ground • He strongly states that it is not right to assume that something that is legal is morally correct

  4. He Considers Some Facts about Capital Punishment • Jay Sawyer from Glenview, ILshares that capital punishment is undeniably a scar on the justice, especially when it comes to the concept of equal justice under law • After going through various studies, he points that in US, between 1967 and 1977, there were no executions • In 1972, the US Supreme Court reduced the pending death sentences to life imprisonment • Thereafter, in 1976, the court affirmed the legality of capital punishment

  5. Thank YouJay Sawyer, Glenview IL

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