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Murder for Murder: Why capital punishment deserves to die. Cruel, barbaric, harsh and unjustifiable are all adjectives that accurately describe heinous acts committed by unlawful criminals. What’s worse is we have descended upon their level of destruction and retaliated with an equally if not harsher offence…Capital punishment. The only way to stop these unjustly rulings is to abolish capital punishment completely! Crime prevention and innocent convictions: Last year alone there were seventy-one lives taken by the vengeful hands of society. This is a 14.2% increase then the previous year. What this statistic shows is that there is a lack of deterrence in crime. In fact there is substantial evidence that suggests that executions actually increase the murder rate. So on what grounds does capital punishment stand for? That is