Monday, Sept. 15, 2014 | 2:01 a.m.
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No one is justified in taking a human life, except in self-defense.
We justify the death penalty by saying it will prevent the person from committing the crime again as well as deter other people from committing the crime.
The same result can be obtained with a life sentence without parole, and we would avoid executing a wrongly convicted person. If this has happened only once, it is too often.
We need to abolish the death penalty. Two wrongs do not make a right.
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