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Question

Should the Commonwealth of Massachusetts reinstate the death penalty or should the maximum punishment be life in prison?

2 or 3 paragraph

Answer 1

The death penalty can be justified as a deterrent or a punishment. There is no evidence that it deters other criminals from committing death-penalty crimes. As a punishment, some believe killing like that is immoral. Others point out that the death penalty has been inflicted disproportionately on nonwhite convicts. Finally, if a mistake is made in a trial, it can't be changed later if the wrongly convicted person is dead.

Because there are so many arguments against the death penalty, Mass. and many other states got rid of it long ago.