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“Capital Punishment should be introduced into the Australian legal system” Capital punishment is a legal sentencing to death if found guilty of a crime and is a big social issue due to mass murders and terrorist activity affecting our world lately. So the question stands: should capital punishment be introduced in the Australian Legal system. Absolutely! Why wouldn’t we want to sentence someone to death after sufficient evidence concludes they have committed a heinous crime? Although more than half of the countries in the world have abolished the death penalty, a poll showed that 54 percent of 3000 Australians surveyed were supporting the death penalty. Furthermore 29 percent were opposed and the rest were undecided. Since Mr Howard seems to be at the beckoning call of Mr Bush why can’t our government follow one of the actual decent laws that Bush has attained? Why cant we hang the two killers who raped and viciously butchered two Bega schoolgirls? We cant because the government worry of killing an innocent person is in the back of their minds is far more important than the innocent people dying at random because our government wont do anything about it. So the question of executing the innocent still stand, but